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Subject crime and punishment Level [40] File

21. 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

22. 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

23. 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

24. Add Or 5498

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 5498
Title:
Highway robber.
Scope & Content:
Highway robber. Inscribed below (Hand A and B): ‘Voleur de grand chemin.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1780-1790
Extent:
1 Item

25. WD1597

Reference (shelfmark):
WD1597
Title:
Theft by an ayah of an English child from a bungalow while the mother's back is turned
Scope & Content:
Theft by an ayah of an English child from a bungalow while the mother's back is turned. c.1825. Pen-and-ink and water-colour; 3.5 by 6 ins. Note: Original drawing either for or after ‘Confessions of an Oxonian’ (London, 1826), iii, plate 33, engraved by J. Findlay. This book was reputedly wr...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1825
Extent:
1 Item

26. WD1598

Reference (shelfmark):
WD1598
Title:
The ayah about to sacrifice the English child on an altar
Scope & Content:
The ayah about to sacrifice the English child on an altar. c.1825. Pen-and-ink and water-colour; 3.5 by 5.75 ins. Note: Original drawing either for or after ‘Confessions of an Oxonian’ (London, 1826), iii, plate 34, engraved by J. Findlay.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1825
Extent:
1 Item

27. WD2479

Reference (shelfmark):
WD2479
Title:
An album containing 409 drawings made in Delhi district, the Punjab, the Punjab States and on board ship. 1861-89, including portraits of named Indians and Europeans and miscellaneous scenes. Artist(s): Harcourt, Alfred Frederick Pollock (1836-1910)
Scope & Content:
An album containing 409 drawings (also 2 photographs, ff. 126, 127) made in Delhi district, the Punjab, the Punjab States and on board ship. 1861-89. Entitled: ‘Heads of the People.’ Inscribed on f.i: ‘Colonel A.F.P. Harcourt, his Drawings begun Delhi 1864’. ‘Rebound Streatley. 1900’; f.iiv in...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1861-1889
Extent:
1 item

28. WD2977

Reference (shelfmark):
WD2977
Title:
Dutch judge and local dignitaries witnessing the execution and mutilation of criminals, Java. Artist(s): Bork, W.H.V. (fl. 1807)
Scope & Content:
Dutch judge and Javanese rulers witnessing the execution and mutilation of criminals, Java. 1807. By W.H.V. Bork[e?] Inscribed: ‘W.H.V. Bork[e?] invt. 1807’. Water-colour; 49 by 65.4 cm. Note: A rather spectacular water-colour by an artist whose name is unknown. The drawing depicts a Dutc...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1807
Extent:
1 Item

29. WD3089

Reference (shelfmark):
WD3089
Title:
Album of 40 drawings that appear to have been made during periods of duty in Central India and while on furlough and sick leave. Artist(s): Crump, Charles Wade (1825-1857)
Scope & Content:
f.1 Panhala fort, Kolhapur State. Inscribed: ‘The Gate of Panulla from ye outside CWC 1846’ and on reverse: ‘The Outside of the Western Gate at Penulla, here it was that all the hard fighting took place when the fort was stormed’. Below: ‘No.1. Exterior of the Western Gate of Penulla, a Mahratta ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1845-1851
Extent:
1 item

30. WD3906

Reference (shelfmark):
WD3906
Title:
Prisoners in manacles and leg irons. Artist(s): Loder, Edwin (1827-1885)
Scope & Content:
Prisoners in manacles and leg irons. Inscribed: ‘Burmah Chiefs Nathadoon. Pounkee. E. Loder Pinxit’. 29.4 by 20 cm.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1853
Extent:
1 Item