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Three Chinese men torture a prisoner by extracting a vein from his lower leg . Gouache painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
Date: 1850Reference: 582341iPart of: A Chinese methods of torture and punishment- Pictures
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A Chinese man heats up sections of a metal chain over a flame in order to torture a prisoner. Gouache painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
Date: 1850Reference: 582333iPart of: A Chinese methods of torture and punishment- Pictures
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A Chinese man tortures a prisoner bound at the stake. Gouache painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
Date: 1850Reference: 582345iPart of: A Chinese methods of torture and punishment- Pictures
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A Chinese torturer pushes a sharp instrument into the eardrum of a prisoner. Gouache painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
Date: 1850Reference: 582349iPart of: A Chinese methods of torture and punishment- Pictures
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A Chinese man interrogates a prisoner who is on his knees, while his ears twisted by a torturer. Gouache painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
Date: 1850Reference: 582348iPart of: A Chinese methods of torture and punishment- Pictures
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Two Chinese torturers twist the ears of a kneeling man. Gouache painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
Date: 1850Reference: 582357iPart of: A Chinese methods of torture and punishment- Pictures
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A man, held by two Chinese torturers, has the soles of his feet beaten with a stick. Gouache painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
Date: 1850Reference: 582352iPart of: A Chinese methods of torture and punishment- Pictures
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A Chinese man beats a prisoner. Gouache painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
Date: 1850Reference: 582347iPart of: A Chinese methods of torture and punishment- Pictures
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A Chinese man delivers food to a prisoner chained to a metal weight. Gouache painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
Date: 1850Reference: 582360iPart of: A Chinese methods of torture and punishment- Pictures
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Two Chinese prisoners with their ankles bound to a metal bar, squat on the ground. Gouache painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
Date: 1850Reference: 582355iPart of: A Chinese methods of torture and punishment- Pictures
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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- Pictures
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A man, bound at the stake, is disemboweled by a Chinese man with a sword. Gouache painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
Date: 1850Reference: 582350iPart of: A Chinese methods of torture and punishment- Pictures
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Chinese prisoners being subjected to torture: two men are shown bound and suspended from a horizontal pole, watched by their torturer, while two others await a similar fate below. Gouache painting on rice-paper, 1780/1880?.
Date: 1780-1880Reference: 573873iPart of: Chinese justice and methods of punishment- Pictures
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A kneeling Chinese woman is subjected to torture: the woman's hands are tied above her head, while two men insert a pole between her wrists. Gouache painting on rice-paper, 1780/1880?.
Date: 1780-1880Reference: 573880iPart of: Chinese justice and methods of punishment- Pictures
Chinese methods of torture and punishment. Paintings by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
Date: 1850Reference: 582331i- Books
The big book of pain : torture & punishment through history / Mark P. Donnelly & Daniel Diehl.
Donnelly, Mark, 1967-Date: 2011- Pictures
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Three different methods of punishment and torture, including scourging the bare buttocks of a culprit. Etching.
Reference: 43742i- Books
Horrors of the past : on stand 82, in "The Daily Telegraph" exhibition of antiques and works of art, Olympia, London, July 19th to August 1st, 1928 is a collection of instruments of punishment and torture, and old engravings and curios gathered from various sources. The collection is exhibited to show the great strides which the last century has made in the interests of truth, humanity and justice / Major A. G. Wade.
Wade, Alexander Gawthrop.Date: [1928?]- Pictures
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Varieties of torture in Asia. Etching by R. de Hooghe, 1682.
Hooghe, Romeyn de, 1645-1708.Date: [1682]Reference: 582010i- Pictures
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The punishment and torture of the "Peacock" dervishes by order of Emin Pasha's rebel officers: the dervishes are lined up and seated to have their ears sliced off. Coloured wood engraving by P. Naumann after W.H. Overend after A.J. Mounteney-Jephson.
Jephson, A. J. Mounteney (Arthur Jermy Mounteney), 1858-1908.Reference: 43341i- Pictures
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A prisoner in Sing Sing Prison, New York, having water poured over him by a guard as a punishment, while restrained at the ankles and wrists: he dies. Wood engraving, 1869.
Date: [1869]Reference: 37753i- Books
Virtuous violence : hurting and killing to create, sustain, end, and honor social relationships : the social-relational, moral motivational psychology, cultural anthropology and history of war, torture, genocide, animal and human sacrifice, obedience to gods, religious self-torture, homicide, robbery, intimate partner conflict, rape, suicide and self-harm, corporal and capital punishment, trial by ordeal and combat, policing, initiation, castration, fighting for status, contac sports and martial arts, honor, the Iliad and the Trojan War, injurious mortuary rites, and homicidal mourning / Alan Page Fiske and Tage Shakti Rai ; with a foreword by Steven Pinker.
Fiske, Alan Page, 1947-Date: 2015- Pictures
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Methods of torture through the ages: including a rack, the man in the iron mask? and Roman and Tudor punishments. Halftone.
Date: [19th century]Reference: 531830iPart of: The Fallaize Collection.- Pictures
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Methods of torture in South America: people in field stocks before large crucifixes. Wood engraving by Riou.
Riou, Édouard, 1833-1900.Reference: 43741i- Books
The pleasures of the torture chamber / by John Swain.
Swain, John.Date: 1933