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Martyrdom of Christian saints by being shut up to be bitten by mice or rats, crowded together like locusts, or trampled by horses. Woodcut.

Reference

11044i

Part of

Cruciatus sanctorum martyrum

A Chinese man is held on the ground by a man while another is hitting him with a wooden stick. Coloured stipple print by J. Dadley, 1801.

Date

1 Jany. 1801

Reference

579704i

A Chinese man with his hands bound in a wooden grid, kneeling on the ground, is tortured by two men holding a long stick and a man with a rope. Coloured stipple print by J. Dadley, 1801.

Date

1 Jany. 1801

Reference

579686i

A Chinese prisoner being subjected to a flogging: the prisoner is shown being held in a kneeling position by one man, while another administers lashes to his back. Gouache painting on rice-paper, 18--?

Date

1800-1899

Reference

573825i

A prisoner's feet are tied to a pole as a man with a long stick beats the soles of his feet, Persia. Process print by C. Hentschel, 1896, after F. Dadd.

Date

[1896]

Reference

586391i

A naked woman, trapped on a ledge on a cliff and chained to a bomb, tries to escape from a fiery explosion. Watercolour by N. Goullet, 1955.

Date

25/8/55 [25 August 1955]

Reference

2970724i

Part of

Adamson Collection

The prisoner, who is kept in a small slatted wooden box is has his judgement read to him while he stretches his hands through the slats in a pleading gesture. Lithograph after J.P. Moynet.

Reference

43272i

A Chinese man is bound to a pole, has had an arrow shot through his ear as a punishment for insolence to a superior; a Chinese man holding a sign describing the crime; and a mandarin reproving the culprit. Coloured aquatint by W. Alexander, 1814.

Date

1814

Reference

579904i

Defensa de la tortura y leyes patrias que la establecieron : e inpugnacion del tratado que escribio contra ella el doctor D. Alfonso Maria de Acevedo / Su autor, don Pedro de Castro.

Date

1778

A star falls into the pit of hell as locusts torture those unelected to heaven. Woodcut, c. 16th century.

Reference

25031i