punishment devices

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Hans Baldung Grien - St. Catherine.

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

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

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 / engraved by T. Cook from an original painting by William Hogarth in the possession of Mr. Ray.

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]

[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 lawfull

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

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 instruments of torture used to punish slaves

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

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

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 domain.

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 domain.

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, China

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

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., museum

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

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, 477 Broadway, N.Y

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, 477 Broadway, N.Y

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 House of Commons / engraved by T. Cook from an original painting by William Hogarth in the possession of Mr. Ray.

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 House of Commons / engraved by T. Cook from an original painting by William Hogarth in the possession of Mr. Ray.

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.

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.

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