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The execution by sword of a Chinese man. Gouache painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
Date: 1850Reference: 582365iPart of: A Chinese methods of torture and punishment- Books
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A narrative of the proceedings in France, for discovering and detecting the murderers of the English gentlemen, September 21. 1723, near Calais. With an account of the condemnation and sentence of Joseph Bizeau and Peter Le Febvre, two notorious robbers, who were the principal Actors in the said Murder; particularly in the killing Mr. Lock. Together with their Discovery, and Manner of perpetrating that execrable Murder; and also large Memoirs of their Behaviour during their Torture, and upon the Scaffold, their impeaching several other Criminals, and a brief History of their past Crimes, as well in Company with their former Captain, the famous Cartouche, as since his Execution. In which Is a great Variety of Remarkable Incidents, and Surprizing Circumstances, never yet made Publick. Translated from the French.
Date: M.DCC.XXIV. [1724]- Books
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A narrative of the proceedings in France, for discovering and detecting the murderers of the English gentlemen, September 21. 1723, near Calais. With an account of the condemnation and sentence of Joseph Bizeau and Peter Le Febvre, two notorious robbers, who were the principal Actors in the said Murder; particularly in the killing Mr. Lock. Together with their Discovery, and Manner of perpetrating that execrable Murder; and also large Memoirs of their Behaviour during their Torture, and upon the Scaffold, their impeaching several other Criminals, and a Brief History of their past Crimes, as well in Company with their former Captain, the famous Cartouche, as since his Execution. In which is a great Variety of Remarkable Incidents, and Surprizing Circumstances, never yet made Publick. Translated from the French.
Date: M.DCC.XXIV. [1724]- Books
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A narrative of the proceedings in France, for discovering and detecting the murderers of the English gentlemen, September 21. 1723, near Calais. With an account of the condemnation and sentence of Joseph Bizeau and Peter Le Febvre, two notorious robbers, who were the principal Actors in the said Murder; particularly in the killing Mr. Lock. Together with their Discovery, and Manner of perpetrating that execrable Murder; and also large Memoirs of their Behaviour during their Torture, and upon the Scaffold, their impeaching several other Criminals, and a brief History of their past Crimes, as well in Company with their former Captain, the famous Cartouche, as since his Execution. In which is a great Variety of Remarkable Incidents, and Surprizing Circumstances, never yet made Publick. Translated from the French.
Date: M.DCC.XXV. [1725]- Pictures
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China: a man standing in a locked cage as a method of slow torture or execution. Photograph, 18--.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899]Reference: 663448i- Pictures
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Torture and execution of alleged plague carriers in Milan, 1630. Engraving.
Reference: 1999i- Archives and manuscripts
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M0000790: Torture and execution of alleged plague carriers in Milan, 1630. Etching
Date: 12 May 1930Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/7/87Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Pictures
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Canton, China: six men suspended by the neck in locked cages in public as a method of slow torture and execution for piracy. Photograph, 18--.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899]Reference: 663449i- Pictures
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Three Chinese men being subjected to torture and execution: left, the body of a recently decapitated man, centre, a man tied to a cross, right, an executioner prepars to decapitate a kneeling man. Gouache painting on rice-paper, 18--?.
Date: 1800-1899Reference: 573832i- Books
Narrative of the barbarous murder of Madame Mazel, a French lady of distinction : with an account of the trial, torture, and death, of her valet de chambre, Le Brun ; who was declared, on presumptive evidence, to be guilty of the murder, or accessary thereto ; also the confession and execution of the real murderer, who was miraculously discovered some time afterwards.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899?]- Pictures
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A Chinese man is being led to execution by four men. Wood engraving, 1857.
Date: [1857]Reference: 579728i- Pictures
China (?): the mutilated bodies of three men who have been tortured and executed. Photograph, 19--.
Date: [between 1900 and 1999]Reference: 663765i- Pictures
King Charles II. Etching after J. Chantry.
Chantry, John, -1662?Date: [between 1800 and 1899?]Reference: 2042953i- Pictures
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An auto-da-fé of the Spanish Inquisition and the execution of sentences by burning heretics on the stake in a market place. Engraving by B. Picart.
Picart, Bernard, 1673-1733.Reference: 43211i- Pictures
China: the mutilated bodies of two men who had been tortured, dismembered and beheaded. Photograph, ca. 1900.
Date: [1900?]Reference: 663857i- Pictures
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A Chinese man being garrotted attached to a cross; two guards watching him. Wood engraving, 1857.
Date: [1857]Reference: 579912i- Pictures
China: the mutilated body of a man who had been dismembered and beheaded. Photograph, 19--.
Date: [between 1900 and 1999]Reference: 663854i- Books
The illustrated history of torture : from the Roman Empire to the war on terror / Jack Vernon.
Vernon, Jack.Date: [2011], ©2011- Pictures
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The execution of the eight surviving conspirators of the Gunpowder Plot in 1606 in London. Etching with engraving by C.J. Visscher.
Visscher, Claes Jansz., 1586 or 1587-1652.Reference: 43489i- Pictures
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An auto-da-fé of the Spanish Inquisition: the burning of heretics in a market place. Wood engraving by H.D. Linton after Bocourt after T. Robert-Fleury.
Robert-Fleury, Tony, 1837-1911.Date: 1800-1899Reference: 43737i- Pictures
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A woman about to be tortured in the Iron Maiden of Nuremberg. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1970.
Bishop, Mary, (Mary Cecil Hamilton), 1914-1990.Date: June 70 [June 1970]Reference: 2869404iPart of: Adamson Collection- Pictures
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A man being tortured and executed in public. Gouache drawing.
Reference: 27655i- Books
Death by a thousand cuts / Timothy Brook, Jérôme Bourgon, Gregory Blue.
Brook, Timothy, 1951-Date: 2008- Pictures
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A Chinese man with bound feet being led to execution by two Chinese men holding swords. Coloured stipple print by J. Dadley, 1801.
Date: 1 Jany. 1801Reference: 579708i- Pictures
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A girl in a red aureole with spiked bars; representing fear of the Iron Maiden of Nuremberg. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1967.
Bishop, Mary, (Mary Cecil Hamilton), 1914-1990.Date: [August 1967?]Reference: 2854472iPart of: Adamson Collection