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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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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.

    • Dadd, Frank, 1851-1929
    Date
    [1896]
    Reference
    586391i
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  • 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.

    • Goullet, Nancy, active approximately 1954-1957.
    Date
    25/8/55 [25 August 1955]
    Reference
    2970724i
    Part of
    Adamson Collection
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  • 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.

    • Moynet, Jean-Pierre
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    43272i
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  • 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.

    • Alexander, William, 1767-1816
    Date
    1814
    Reference
    579904i
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  • 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.

    • Castro, Pedro de, canon of Seville
    Date
    1778
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  • A star falls into the pit of hell as locusts torture those unelected to heaven. Woodcut, c. 16th century.

    Reference
    25031i
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