A man hangs from hooks in his back, watched by a group of musicians and a crowd of people in a market square in India. Coloured aquatint by T. Medland after C. Gold, ca. 1803.

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A man hangs from hooks in his back, watched by a group of musicians and a crowd of people in a market square in India. Coloured aquatint by T. Medland after C. Gold, ca. 1803.