Act of beating the human body with special implements such as whips, lashes etc

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A flagellation (above) and an unidentified scene (below). Tempera painting by a Spanish painter, 14th century.

An episode in Baldo by Teofilo Folengo (Merlin Cocai): a centaur releases Falchetto and his companions from a cave, while Cingar ties Muselina to a tree and whips her with branches. Etching.

Middlesex House of Correction: a man is holding a birch in his hand as he stands over a shaped wooden plank set near a window for flogging boys; a man and a woman look on. Wood engraving after M. Fitzgerald, 1874..

A woman undresses as a man wearing a monk's habit stands nearby with a whip in his hand. Etching.

A Chinese monk having been found with a woman has his neck pierced with a chain and is whipped by another monk when he touches his neck. Engraving attributed to B. Picart.

A treatise of the use of flogging in venerial affairs : also of the office of the loins and reins ... / by John Henry Meibomius ; made English from the Latin original by a physician.

A Chinese man lying on the ground is being scourged by order of a magistrate and his clerk; a man carrying the cangue around his neck as a punishment walks past. Engraving by T. Wallis after W.M. Craig, May 1805.

Joe Huggins, condemned for throttling an old gentleman, is stripped to the waist and kneeling before policemen pleading for mercy while the executioner is rolling up the sleeves of his shirt to begin with the flogging. Wood engraving by J. Swain after Sir J. Tenniel, 1872.

Devils scourging monks in a village. Engraving, 17--.

A parson accompanied by two constables on his way to visit prisoners in a parish lockup. Etching, 1778.

A white man in Brazil whipping a black man who has been tied up and lies before him on the ground. Chalk lithograph after J.B. Debret.

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.

Superman's girl friend, Lois Lane. No.73, The dummy and the damsel! / Kurt Schaffenberger [artist].

Memorials of human superstition ; being a paraphrase and commentary on the Historia Flagellantium of the Abbé Boileau, Doctor of the Sorbonne ... / By one who is not Doctor of the Sorbonne.

Der Flagellantismus im Altertum / [Georg Friedrich Collas].

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Flagellation

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Middlesex House of Correction: a man is holding a birch in his hand as he stands over a shaped wooden plank set near a window for flogging boys; a man and a woman look on. Wood engraving after M. Fitzgerald, 1874..

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.

Superman's girl friend, Lois Lane. No.73, The dummy and the damsel! / Kurt Schaffenberger [artist].

Memorials of human superstition ; being a paraphrase and commentary on the Historia Flagellantium of the Abbé Boileau, Doctor of the Sorbonne ... / By one who is not Doctor of the Sorbonne.

Der Flagellantismus im Altertum / [Georg Friedrich Collas].

Flagellation

Images from the collections

Images referencing Flagellation

Works from the collections

Middlesex House of Correction: a man is holding a birch in his hand as he stands over a shaped wooden plank set near a window for flogging boys; a man and a woman look on. Wood engraving after M. Fitzgerald, 1874..

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.

Superman's girl friend, Lois Lane. No.73, The dummy and the damsel! / Kurt Schaffenberger [artist].

Memorials of human superstition ; being a paraphrase and commentary on the Historia Flagellantium of the Abbé Boileau, Doctor of the Sorbonne ... / By one who is not Doctor of the Sorbonne.

Der Flagellantismus im Altertum / [Georg Friedrich Collas].

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