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  • An angel leading a soul into hell. Oil painting by a follower of Hieronymus Bosch.
  • A Chinese man with bound feet being led to execution by two Chinese men holding swords. Coloured stipple print by J. Dadley, 1801.
  • The martyrdom of Thiemo (Theodamarus) of Salzburg: his intestines are wound on to a windlass. Engraving by R. Sadeler I, 1615, after P. Candidus (Pieter de Witte).
  • Tortures. Watercolours by a Japanese artist.
  • A Chinese courtroom (?): a woman is shown being beaten, as she kneels before a formally-dressed official, who is writing at a desk. Gouache painting on rice-paper, 1780/1880?.
  • An auto-da-fé of the Spanish Inquisition: the burning of heretics in a market place. Wood engraving by H.D. Linton after Bocourt after T. Robert-Fleury.
  • A Chinese woman sentenced to have her feet cut off is carried to the torturer; the judge is seated behind a desk. Wood engraving by L. Dumont, 1864, after L. Janet-Langer.
  • The punishment of criminal soldiers by hanging them in large numbers on a tree. Etching after Jacques Callot, ca. 1633.
  • A Chinese interpreter kneeling with a stick behind his knees is being tortured by two men standing on the stick. Coloured engraving by A. Freschi, 1812.
  • Mediaeval torturers torture a gout-sufferer; representing the view attributed to Fabricius von Hilden that gout could be cured by torture. Colour process print after D.T. de Losques, 1910.
  • A Chinese man confined to a contraption similar to stocks which constrains the movement of his head and pins his legs down on the wooden planks. Watercolour drawing.
  • The Last Judgment: sinners in hell are tortured by monstrous devils as a ferry carries new arrivals to the same fate. Line engraving by Petrus de Jode the elder, 1615, after Jean Cousin the younger.
  • The mystic marriage of Saint Catherine of Alexandria to the Christ child; Saint Joseph looks at angels who bear attributes of Saint Barbara and Saint Margaret. Drawing by F. Rosaspina, c. 1830, after A. Tiarini.
  • Saint Laurence of Rome: his martyrdom. Line engraving by C. Cort after Titian, 1571.
  • Christ crowned with thorns. Engraving after A. Durer, 1512.
  • The execution of the eight surviving conspirators of the Gunpowder Plot in 1606 in London. Etching with engraving by C.J. Visscher.
  • Tortures. Watercolours by a Japanese artist.
  • The Virgin Mary with the Christ child, saints and martyrs (known as the 'Madonna del Rosario') Drawing by F. Rosaspina, c. 1830, after D. Zampieri, il Domenichino, 1619-21.
  • The torture of Hans Bret, an Englishman captured in Antwerp in 1576: Bret is sitting chained to a rock having his tongue removed with hot pliers in preparation to be burnt on the stake at a later stage. Etching.
  • Joze Maria de Távora tied to a rack and beaten with cudgels. Etching, ca. 1760.
  • The torture of William Lithgow in the dungeons of the Inquisition in Malaga in 1620. Line engraving with etching by W. Raddon after Craig.
  • Marcus Atilius Regulus placed in a barrel lined with iron spikes with soldiers fitting more nails on the barrel and closing the lid. Line engraving after Giulio Romano, 1560.
  • A Chinese man being garrotted attached to a cross; two guards watching him. Wood engraving, 1857.
  • A Chinese man confined to a contraption which ties his legs on to a wooden gallows whilst pinning his head firmly to the ground. Watercolour drawing.
  • Christ beaten and mocked before the High Priest Caiaphas. Etching by Jacques Callot.
  • Martyrdom of Christian saints by being shut up to be bitten by mice or rats, crowded together like locusts, or trampled by horses. Woodcut.
  • A Chinese man is hanging up from a rope attached to a wooden structure and resting on a bamboo stick held by two Chinese men. Coloured stipple print by J. Dadley, 1801.
  • Christ bound and beaten by Jews. Etching by Heinrich Nüsser after J.F. Overbeck, 1850.
  • The mocking and flagellation of Christ; he is crowned with thorns and beaten with sticks. Drawing by F. Rosaspina, c. 1830, after L. Carracci.
  • Tortures. Watercolours by a Japanese artist.