A man is tortured on an intricate contraption which combines a rack, a pulley and weights and lifted up by it before the inquisitor and his scribe. Wood engraving (?) after H. Soltau.

  • Soltau, Hermann Wilhelm, 1812-1861.
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43416i
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[Place of publication not identified] : A. Bisson

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1 print : wood engraving ; image 21.5 x 14.2 cm

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Le moyen age et la renaissance. Prisons, executions, tortures, pl.1. H. Soltau del. F. Sére direxit. Cabinet des Estampes, Bibliotheque Royale, Vieux maitres en bois, tome 4, f. 112

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Wellcome Collection 43416i

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Apparently after a drawing by Soltau after a 16th century woodcut

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