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5.—Suspended with great weights on the shoulders, and a gag fixed in the mouth.Tortures and Torments of the Christian Martyrs (1903)

A. Martyr suspended by the hands, which are bound behind his back, and having the shoulders weighted with lumps of salt, a wooden gag being also forced into his mouth. B. Martyr suspended by a hook. “ [...]

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Added: 2006-04-17

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Engraving detail: stripy feetThe Works of Shakspere, with notes by Charles Knight (1873)

A detail from There Sleeps Titania showing the engraving technique. It is actually the knight’s feet, in his quasi-medieval shoes. There is a series of three books about the Heath family of engravers [...]

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Added: 2009-10-22

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John Bunyan’s chained leg in prisonThe National and Domestic History of England (Vol 3) (1878)

This detail from John Bunyan at Bedford Gaol shows a manacle or leg-iron around John Bunyan’s black-stocking’d leg fastened to a heavy chain which is set into the wall of the prison. I’ve sized this i [...]

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Added: 2018-08-13

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