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301. Add Or 5184

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 5184
Title:
Flogging with Red Hot Chain. Artist(s): Unknown.
Scope & Content:
Flogging with Red Hot Chain Original inscription: 火鏈刑身 (Punishment with a Red Hot Chain) Depiction of a bare-chested prison tied to a vertical wooden pool, about to be whipped by a hot red iron chain fixed to a wooden handle. The chain is being heated on a small fire by a clerk. This image is...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Chinese and English
Date Range:
1840-1860
Extent:
1 Item

302. Add Or 5185

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 5185
Title:
Torture. Extracting the truth. Artist(s): Unknown.
Scope & Content:
Torture. Extracting the truth
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Chinese and English
Date Range:
1840-1860
Extent:
1 Item

303. Add Or 5186

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 5186
Title:
Punishing a Bad Wife. Artist(s): Unknown.
Scope & Content:
Punishing a Bad Wife Original inscription: 夾指問淫(Applying pressure to the fingers to interrogate promiscuity) Depiction of two men using a "finger crusher" (a Qing Dynasty torture tool) on a kneeling woman. The tool is made of five cylidrical pieces of wood tied together with a rope, which can ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Chinese and English
Date Range:
1840-1860
Extent:
1 Item

304. Add Or 5187

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 5187
Title:
Strangulation. Artist(s): Unknown.
Scope & Content:
Strangulation Original inscription: 議絞全屍 (Judgement of strangulation so that the corpse remains whole) Depiction of a criminal tied to a wooden cross and being strangled with a rope. On the ground are leg fetters and a wooden board inscribed with the words "By imperial decree, criminal condemn...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Chinese and English
Date Range:
1840-1860
Extent:
1 Item

305. Add Or 5188

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 5188
Title:
Beheading. Artist(s): Unknown.
Scope & Content:
Beheading Original inscription: 十惡殺頭 (convicted of one of the ten great wrongs and beheaded) Depiction of a kneeling criminal about to be beheaded. One officer squats behind the criminal and hols his shoulder; a second officer is depicted lifting a sword. The criminal has the board of infamy t...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Chinese and English
Date Range:
1840-1860
Extent:
1 Item

306. Add Or 5189

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 5189
Title:
Capt. Anstruther. Transporting from and to prison. Artist(s): Unknown.
Scope & Content:
Capt. Anstruther. Transporting from and to prison Original inscription: 上囚赴解 (Carting the prisoner to a certain place) Depiction of two soldiers carrying a prisoner in a wooden cage. On the upper garnment of the left soldier, there are the characters "Brave of the Right Brigade", identifying h...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Chinese and English
Date Range:
1840-1860
Extent:
1 Item

307. Add Or 5728-5775

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 5728-5775
Title:
Portraits and costumes of the Rajah and Dewan of Travanore and the various castes of the native Indians by Stephen Crening, 1842
Scope & Content:
48 drawings bound into a volume depicting castes of the Malabar Coast. In most cases a man and woman are shown together holding the implements of their trade. At the end of the album, there is a 'A Supplemental Explanatory Table to the foregoing plates arranged in their numerical order'. First tw...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1837-1842
Extent:
1 album with 48 drawings

308. Add Or 5788

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 5788
Title:
King Satyavrata reverences the fish avatar of Vishnu, from the 'Small' Bhagavata Purana Series. Artist(s): Attributed to Manaku (fl. c. 1700-1760)
Scope & Content:
Brush drawing on paper. Inscribed above in Pahari in Takri script: machha talaye vich na oyi. tam bade sarovare vich sati. 227 ('The fish was unable to fit within pond, so [it was] left into the sea') (read by Vijay Sharma) and with the number 227. The story of King Satyavrata occurs in the la...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1740-50
Extent:
1 item

309. Add Or 5789

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 5789
Title:
Nanapah, butler to Mr C.N. Teed; Arist(s): Unknown
Scope & Content:
Portrait of Nanapah, butler to Mr. C.N. Teed Madras, circa 1830 Illustration depicts Nanapah, standing in profile holding an open book and a set of keys. He is dressed in traditional white kurta and dhoti with a white turban. The setting is a colonial residence with a gilt framed painting in t...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1830
Extent:
1 item

310. EAP981/1/3/30

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP981/1/3/30
Title:
Drafts of a genealogical tree (19th century)
Scope & Content:
19th Century. Drafts of genealogical tree. Physical characteristics: 21 x 16.5 cm size. Author(s): Not mentioned. Scribe: Not mentioned.
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English and Tamil
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
130 TIFF images

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