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Image title:	81.—Captive wearing the Torque.
Source:	Knight, Charles: “Old England: A Pictorial Museum” (1845)
Place shown:	none
Keywords:	prisoners, punishments, slavery, people, greyscale
Status:	out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free stock image for all purposes usage credit requested
Notes:	“Torques, or gold and bronze necklaces composed of flexible bars, were peculiar to the people of this country.” (p. 22) “The symbols of the great republic were henceforward to become more familiar to the skin-clothed and painted Britons (Fig. 79); but not as yet were they to be bound with the chain of the captive (Fig. 81).” (p. 26) It is not clear whether the image depicts an ancient Briton, or Celt, wearing his torque, and captured by the Romans perhaps to be sold into slavery, or whether the torque was placed by a Briton onto a captured Roman. I think by the hair style that the half-naked prisoner is a Briton.
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Image title:

81.—Captive wearing the Torque.

Source:

Knight, Charles: “Old England: A Pictorial Museum” (1845)

Place shown:

none

Keywords:

prisoners, punishments, slavery, people, greyscale

Status:

out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free stock image for all purposes usage credit requested

Notes:

“Torques, or gold and bronze necklaces composed of flexible bars, were peculiar to the people of this country.” (p. 22)

“The symbols of the great republic were henceforward to become more familiar to the skin-clothed and painted Britons (Fig. 79); but not as yet were they to be bound with the chain of the captive (Fig. 81).” (p. 26)

It is not clear whether the image depicts an ancient Briton, or Celt, wearing his torque, and captured by the Romans perhaps to be sold into slavery, or whether the torque was placed by a Briton onto a captured Roman. I think by the hair style that the half-naked prisoner is a Briton.

Filename:

0081-Captive-wearing-the-Torque-q75-898x803.jpg

Blog image:

http://fromoldbooks.org/r/3/0081-Captive-wearing-the-Torque-q75-500x447.jpg

Blog link:

http://fromoldbooks.org/r/3/pages/0081-Captive-wearing-the-Torque/

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2400

Comment:

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