Hans Baldung Grien - St. Catherine.
Public domain reproduction of German art print, 16th-17th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.
Bucked and gaged - triced up DS monogram
Drawing shows two sailors being punished, the first is seated with a rod beneath his knees and over his elbows, his hands tied together just below his knees, a small rod is placed in his mouth with a cord tied ... More
Married to the gunner's daughter DS monogram
Drawing shows a sailor being punished by having him lie on a cannon barrel with his hands tied at one end and his feet at the other, he is then flogged. Signed with monogram on lower right: DS. Removed from ma... More
Bambridge on trial for murder by a committee of the House of Commons /...
Print shows several members of the House of Commons, including James Oglethorpe and Archibald Grant, gathered in a room at the Fleet Prison for an investigation of Thomas Bambridge, warden of the prison, for th... More
[Iron mask, collar, leg shackles and spurs used to restrict slaves]
Illus. in: The penitential tyrant / Thomas Branagan. New-York: Printed by Samuel Wood, no. 362, Pearl-street, 1807. Reference copy in: LOT 4422-A-3.
Judge Thumb : Or patent sticks for family correction; warranted lawful...
Thomas Rowlandson - English caricaturist of the 18th and early 19th centuries Britain, known for his humor, caricatures, satirical drawings, and watercolors, a popular artist in the Regency period in England.
Parish schoolmaster - Public domain drawing
Drawing shows a parish schoolmaster holding a schoolboy by the hair while he strikes him with a switch. The scene probably takes place in Norway. Bayard Taylor traveled through Norway and Scandinavia in 1856 an... More
Wilson Chinn, a branded slave from Louisiana--Also exhibiting instrume...
Photograph by Kimball, N.Y.C. Copyright by George H. Hanks. Public domain photograph - United States during American Civil War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Pillory, Warren S. Parker, lantern slide, Queency, Massachusetts
Public domain reproduction of lantern slide, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Bilboes from the Tower of London, Queency, Massachusetts
Public domain reproduction of lantern slide, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Stocks, Quincy Massachusetts - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domai...
Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Pillory, Quincy Massachusetts - Glass negative photogrpah. Public doma...
Public domain photograph - New England history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
One of the modes of punishment in China - a Boxer prisoner, Peking, Ch...
Public domain photograph of 19th-century stereoscopic card, portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Feeding a prisoner in the cangue, China
Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The Fort Room, showing old whipping post, Deerfield, Massachusetts., m...
Postcard shows display at a museum with a variety of artifacts including a whipping post. H 103541 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 2536 Old Deerfield Series. Made in Germany.
The Christ of the wheel - Public domain monumental decor drawing
"Men Like Gods" series. (Bellows) / The second installment of "Men like Gods" appeared in "Hearst's International Magazine," December 1922, illustrated with a drawing almost identical to this lithograph. (Mason... More
Wilson Chinn, a branded slave from Louisiana Photographed by Kimball, ...
Photograph shows former slave from Louisiana with forehead branded with the initials of his owner, Volsey B. Marmillion, wearing a punishment collar and posing with other equipment used to punish slaves. Print... More
Wilson Chinn, a branded slave from Louisiana Photographed by Kimball, ...
Photograph shows former slave from Louisiana with forehead branded with the initials of his owner, Volsey B. Marmillion, wearing a punishment collar and posing with other equipment used to punish slaves. Print... More
Bainbridge [i.e., Bambridge] on trial for murder by a committee of the...
Print shows several members of the House of Commons, including James Oglethorpe and Archibald Grant, gathered in a room at the Fleet Prison for an investigation of Thomas Bambridge, warden of the prison, for th... More
Bainbridge [i.e., Bambridge] on trial for murder by a committee of the...
Print shows several members of the House of Commons, including James Oglethorpe and Archibald Grant, gathered in a room at the Fleet Prison for an investigation of Thomas Bambridge, warden of the prison, for th... More
The Bastinado. - Drawing. Public domain image.
Public domain photograph related to Chinese history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The strangling, by Pizarro, of the Inca Atahualpa.
Public domain scan of 16th-17th century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description