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  • Christ lies on the ground, beaten and mocked. Etching by L. Simonneau after himself.
  • Marsyas being flayed by Apollo; Juno (Hera) and Jupiter (Zeus); the rape of Oreithyia by Boreas. Etching by P. Aquila after Annibale Carracci.
  • Abyssinians beating captives to death with sticks. Wood engraving, 18--.
  • A Chinese prisoner being subjected to a flogging: the prisoner is shown being held in a kneeling position by one man, while another administers lashes to his back. Gouache painting on rice-paper, 18--?.
  • Three Chinese men being subjected to torture and execution: left, the body of a recently decapitated man, centre, a man tied to a cross, right, an executioner prepars to decapitate a kneeling man. Gouache painting on rice-paper, 18--?.
  • A torture victim; and divination techniques. Engraving.
  • The flagellation of Christ. Etching by H. Nüsser after J.F. Overbeck, 1843.
  • Soldiers pillaging a village. Etching after J. Callot, ca. 1633.
  • An angel leading a soul into hell. Oil painting by a follower of Hieronymus Bosch.
  • A Chinese interpreter kneeling with a stick behind his knees is being tortured by two men standing on the stick. Coloured stipple print by J. Dadley, 1801.
  • Criminal soldiers are caught in their hiding places in woods and brought to justice. Etching after Jacques Callot, ca. 1633.
  • Mount Etna, with Catania below, and St Agatha being tortured with red-hot pincers in the lower margin. Engraving, 16--.
  • A cattle thief in Siam punished by having a yoke fixed around his neck. Process print, 19--.
  • Two Chinese prisoners, shackled to large weights: one prisoner sits on a bench tea, while the other fans the flames of a small furnace. Gouache painting on rice-paper, 18--?.
  • Two Chinese prisoners carrying heavy loads on poles balanced on their shoulders: the men have their legs shackled and are led by two other men, who hold the long chains attached to the prisoners' necks. Gouache painting on rice-paper, 1780/1880?.
  • A cross incorporating a montage of pink heart muscles, pink triangles, crossed red and green squares, the AIDS red ribbon on a stamp, flowers, a hand and a version of the American flag; on a background coloured in green crayon incorporating a montage of photographs including Christ's head of thorns and a hand injecting a syringe into an arm; on a further black background bearing the brown lettering: 'el colonialismo' [colonialism]; advertising the danger of AIDS. Colour lithograph by Juan Sánchez, ca. 1995.
  • A Chinese man seated with his neck fastened in a cangue or pillory; a whip at his feet and houses in the background. Aquatint by W. Alexander, 1814.
  • Varieties of torture in Asia. Etching by R. de Hooghe, 1682.
  • A Chinese man kneeling on the ground and held by a man in uniform is being hit by a man wearing a similar uniform. Coloured stipple print by J. Dadley, 1801.
  • Two Chinese prisoners, shackled to large weights: one prisoner drinks tea (?), while the other sits beside a small furnace. Gouache painting on rice-paper, 18--?.
  • 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.
  • Two Chinese men carrying the cangue around their necks as a punishment. Wood engraving after John Thomson.
  • Soldiers attacking a coach on a country road. Etching after Jacques Callot, ca. 1633.
  • Two Chinese men standing contemplatively before a man whose head is confined in a contraption similar to stocks. Watercolour drawing.
  • Saint Julia: her martyrdom. Woodcut.
  • The mocking and flagellation of Christ; he is crowned with thorns and handed a reed as a mock sceptre. Line engraving by S.A. Bolswert after A. van Dyck.
  • A Chinese man is held on the ground by a man while another is hitting him with a wooden stick. Coloured stipple print by J. Dadley, 1801.
  • A torture chamber where one victim is tied up and suspended from a pulley while being interrogated by two scribes, while another victim is suspended from the ceiling and lowered onto a spike with his rectum. Etching by L.M. after V.V.
  • Saint Martina: her martyrdom. Etching by A. Gherardi, 166-.
  • Four faces of the damned in Dante's Hell. Drawing, c. 1791.