Items matching punishments (results page 1)

Decorative initial letter T with cherubs hanging a wolfFabrica... (1543)

A decorative initial letter “T” used as a drop cap on the introduction to the “Epitome;” this version is coloured in red and blue and yellow (or gold) and comes from a copy at the University of Cambri [...]

Keywords: lettert, initials, cherubs, children, nudity, historiated initials, inhabited initials, bare feet, animals, wolves, punishments, colour

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Added: 2014-11-24

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Title Page Detail: Angel With WhipLes Aventures de Jean-Paul Choppart par Louis Desnoyers: L’Episode de Panouille (1843)

This vignette, or little scene, is on the title page. A winged angel stands amidst two groups of little children. One group, clad in white, have wreaths of flowers round their heads and are praying. [...]

Keywords: children, boys, angels, people, whips, punishments, bare feet, greyscale

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Added: 2007-02-07

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1.—Martyrs suspended by one or both feet, by the arms with heavy weights attached to the feet; crucified; Christian women hung up by the hairTortures and Torments of the Christian Martyrs (1903)

A. Martyrs suspended by one foot. B. Suspended by both feet. C. Raised on the cross head uppermost. D. Nailed to the cross, head downwards. E. Hung up by both arms, heavy weights being attached to the [...]

Keywords: death, torture, nudity, people, punishments, religion, bare feet, spooky, greyscale

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Added: 2006-03-26

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2.—Bound hand and foot to stakes and smeared with honey, and so left exposed to the sun, to be tortured by the stings of bees and other insectsTortures and Torments of the Christian Martyrs (1903)

A. Martyr suspended by both feet, and a great stone fastened to his neck. B. Sometimes the Blessed Martyrs, after being smeared with honey, were bound [naked] to stakes fixed in the ground, and so exp [...]

Keywords: nudity, torture, people, death, punishments, religion, greyscale

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Added: 2006-03-26

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3.—Suspended by the thumbs, heavy stones being fastened to the feet; hung up over a slow fire and beatenTortures and Torments of the Christian Martyrs (1903)

A. Martyr suspended by his thumbs, heavy stones being attached to his feet. B. Christians hung up, and a slow fire kindled underneath, so as to suffocate them with the smoke; the victims being scourge [...]

Keywords: nudity, torture, punishments, people, death, religion, bare feet, greyscale

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Added: 2006-04-03

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4.—Suspended by the feet, and the head beaten with hammers, etc.Tortures and Torments of the Christian Martyrs (1903)

A. Martyr suspended by the feet, and his head at the same time pounded with hammers. B. Martyr suspended by the hands, which are tied behind his back, heavy weights being fastened to his feet and roun [...]

Keywords: torture, nudity, bare feet, punishments, people, death, religion, greyscale

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Added: 2006-04-06

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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. “ [...]

Keywords: torture, nudity, bare feet, feet, punishments, people, death, religion, greyscale

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Added: 2006-04-17

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6.—Martyrs bound to the circumference of a great wheel, and rolled down a precipiceTortures and Torments of the Christian Martyrs (1903)

“Sometimes Martyrs were bound to the circumference of great wheels, and so hurled from a height over stony places.” (p. 26) The plate actually seems to show a naked man with his hands and feet bound b [...]

Keywords: torture, nudity, bare feet, punishments, people, death, religion, machinery, greyscale

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Added: 2006-05-01

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7.—Fastened to a wheel, which is revolved over iron spikesTortures and Torments of the Christian Martyrs (1903)

A. Martyr whose limbs are interwoven in the spokes of a wheel, on which he is left exposed for days, till he dies. B. Martyr bound to a narrow wheel, which is revolved, so that his body is horribly ma [...]

Keywords: torture, nudity, bare feet, punishments, people, death, religion, machinery, greyscale

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Added: 2007-03-02

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8.—Revolved over a blazing fireTortures and Torments of the Christian Martyrs (1903)

A. Martyr bound naked to a wheel, which is revolved over iron spikes. B. Bound to the circumference of a wheel, which is revolved over a fire kindles underneath. This time it’s naked men who are tortu [...]

Keywords: torture, nudity, bare feet, punishments, people, death, religion, machinery, greyscale

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Added: 2007-05-22

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81.—Captive wearing the Torque.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“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 [...]

Keywords: prisoners, punishments, slavery, people, slaves, captivity, men, topless, shirtless, torques, collars, greyscale

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Added: 2007-03-26

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Beating the boyLes Aventures de Jean-Paul Choppart par Louis Desnoyers: L’Episode de Panouille (1843)

Mr.Choppart takes his son in one hand, and with his other hand the cane (used for loading a musket), made from flexible and supple whalebone. A colleague suggested, “Mr Choppart grabbed his son with [...]

Keywords: punishments, people, children, illustrations for children, anger, fear, greyscale

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Added: 2007-02-13

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20.—Tortured with quicklime, boiling oil, etc.Tortures and Torments of the Christian Martyrs (1903)

A. Wooden horse. B. Martyr taken down from the horse and being rolled about over shards of pottery. C. Having quicklime, boiling oil and the like, poured over him.(p. 120) Quickline, or calcium oxide, [...]

Keywords: torture, people, bare feet, punishments, religion, death, greyscale

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Added: 2012-05-14

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Cells at town hall, Boston, England, where the Pilgrim Fathers were confinedAncestral Homes of Noted Americans (1915)

A photograph of a prison, jail or gaol, showing the iron bars of open cell doors. According to the extract from the book that follows, the “Pilgrim Fathers” (a group of Puritans, a sort of fanatical [...]

Keywords: punishments, prisons, cages, interiors, corridors, spooky, pilgrim fathers, greyscale

Places shown: Boston; Lincolnshire; England

Added: 2006-02-20

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Prison Cells (wallpaper version)Ancestral Homes of Noted Americans (1915)

A version of Prison Cells... for use as a computer desktop background image (root wallpaper or whatever you call it on your system). I cropped the image and increased the contrast to make it more atm [...]

Keywords: punishments, prisons, cages, interiors, corridors, wallpaper, backgrounds, pilgrim fathers, greyscale

Places shown: Boston; Lincolnshire; England

Added: 2006-02-20

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The Mad Hatter in Chains.Through the Looking-Glass And What Alice Found There (1871)

The Mad hatter is in a dungeon, sitting on a three-legged milking stool, with a very heavy iron chain fastened to a ring set in the stone wall at one end and to a fetter round his left ankle at the ot [...]

Keywords: alice, illustrations for children, people, mad hatter, punishments, prison, sadness, chains, greyscale

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Added: 2013-01-14

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Town Cross, Stocks and Whipping-Post, RippleIn Unfamiliar England (1910)

“Near the cross, relics of days when there were rogues in Ripple—sureley there are none now—are the oaken stocks and weather-beaten whipping-post.” (p. 132) Stocks were sometimes used to hold people b [...]

Keywords: punishments, stocks, buildings, greyscale

Places shown: Ripple; Worcestershire; England

Added: 2006-06-16

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Newgate – Exercise YardLondon (1872)

Prisoners walk in a circle in a stone-walled prison courtyard that admits very little light. The guards look on, wearing smarter clothes and top hats. Newgate’s sombre walls suggest sad thoughts on t [...]

Keywords: punishments, prisons, people, greyscale

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2008-09-06

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Martyrs being tortured with red-hot iron and with fireTortures and Torments of the Christian Martyrs (1903)

A. Martyrs whose hand is filled with incense mingled with live coals, and who is being constrained by the pain to scatter the incense, is said to have made sacrifice to the idol. B. Martyr clad in the [...]

Keywords: torture, nudity, bare feet, people, punishments, religion, death, greyscale

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Added: 2009-02-25

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Anglo-Saxon PunishmentsBygone Punishments (1931)

“Stocks were used, at an early period, as a means of punishing breakers of the law. The precise date when they were first emplyed in this country is not known, but we may infer from early mediaeval il [...]

Keywords: stocks, punishments, bare feet, people, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: England

Added: 2006-01-08

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