1title: Torture de cruce 1593
artist: Unknown author
date: circa 1593
source: Book published c. 1596
credit: Book published c. 1596
description: Gravure représentant un crucifiement additionné de torture par animaux
license:Public domain
2title: Tameing a Shrew; or, Petruchio's Patent Family Bedstead, Gags & Thumscrews
artist: Charles Williams (died 1830)[1]
date: 1815
source: LOC|cph.3f03804
credit: This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division
under the digital ID cph.3f03804.
This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing for more information.license:Public domain
3title: Wooden torture chair with 12 steel blades, China Wellcome L0058389
artist: unknown
source: link * Gallery: link * Wellcome Collection gallery (2018-04-06): link [link CC-BY-4.0]
credit: link Gallery: link Wellcome Collection gallery (2018-04-06): link CC-BY-4.0
description:
Wooden torture chair with 12 steel blades, China, 1701-1900
Despite its unpleasant associations, this chair is ornately decorated with foliage, scrolls and the heads of mythological sea monsters called Macara. It is made from wood with 12 steel blades in the arm, back and foot rests and seat. The chair is one of many torture instruments purchased by Henry Wellcome.
Medical Photographic Library
license:
CC BY 4.0
4title: Torture during the plague epidemic at Milan, 1630. Wellcome M0000790
artist: unknown
source: link * Gallery: link * Wellcome Collection gallery (2018-04-05): link [link CC-BY-4.0]
credit: link Gallery: link Wellcome Collection gallery (2018-04-05): link CC-BY-4.0
description:
torture and execution of the 'anointers' in the plague epidemic at Milan, 1630; anon., (Orazio Colombo) after engraving by 'Bassano' or 'Francesco Vallato'.
Wellcome Images
Keywords: Francesco Vallato; Bassano; Plaguelicense:
CC BY 4.0
5title: Prisoners being tortured and awaiting torture Wellcome V0041445
artist: unknown
source: link * Gallery: link * Wellcome Collection gallery (2018-04-01): link [link CC-BY-4.0]
credit: link Gallery: link Wellcome Collection gallery (2018-04-01): link CC-BY-4.0
description:
Chinese prisoners being subjected to torture: two men are shown bound and suspended from a horizontal pole, watched by their torturer, while two others await a similar fate below. Gouache painting on rice-paper, 1780/1880?
Iconographic Collections
license:
CC BY 4.0
6title: A Chinese man undergoing torture by two guards Wellcome V0041462
artist: unknown
source: link * Gallery: link * Wellcome Collection gallery (2018-03-21): link [link CC-BY-4.0]
credit: link Gallery: link Wellcome Collection gallery (2018-03-21): link CC-BY-4.0
description:
Two Chinese torturers twist the ears of a kneeling prisoner.
Iconographic Collections
Keywords: Prisoners; Male; China; Punishment; torturelicense:
CC BY 4.0
7title: Two Chinese men torture two prisoners Wellcome V0041477
artist: unknown
source: link * Gallery: link * Wellcome Collection gallery (2018-04-06): link [link CC-BY-4.0]
credit: link Gallery: link Wellcome Collection gallery (2018-04-06): link CC-BY-4.0
description:
Two Chinese men torture two prisoners. One swings a hammer over his head to hit his prisoner and the other uses tongs to pull his prisoner's tongue.
Iconographic Collections
Keywords: Prisoners; China; Punishment; torturelicense:
CC BY 4.0
8title: Various forms of torture, including a man being burnt alive Wellcome V0041718
artist: unknown
source: link * Gallery: link * Wellcome Collection gallery (2018-04-06): link [link CC-BY-4.0]
credit: link Gallery: link Wellcome Collection gallery (2018-04-06): link CC-BY-4.0
description:
Various forms of torture, including a man being burnt alive and a man being held upside down. Woodcut.
Iconographic Collections
license:
CC BY 4.0
9title: Left, a man suffers the "torture of water"; left, a man tied Wellcome V0041730
artist: unknown
source: link * Gallery: link * Wellcome Collection gallery (2018-03-30): link [link CC-BY-4.0]
credit: link Gallery: link Wellcome Collection gallery (2018-03-30): link CC-BY-4.0
description:
Left, a man suffers the "torture of water"; left, a man tied to a rack has his armpits and the soles of his feet scorched by candles. Etching.
Iconographic Collections
license:
CC BY 4.0
title: Medieval torture
artist: Unknown author
date: 16th century
source: Hanns Lilje: ''Martin Luther. En bildmonografi.'' Stockholm 1966.
credit: Hanns Lilje: Martin Luther. En bildmonografi. Stockholm 1966.
description: Medieval torture.
license:Public domain
