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Subject Punishment and Torture

1. 1787.d.7, 3(13)

Reference (shelfmark):
1787.d.7, 3(13)
Title:
The caingue punishment. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Portrait of a kneeling man, wearing the caingue, a square wooden collar, with the wrong-doer's crime proclaimed on a card on the front of the board: 'The caingue...is one of the lighter punishments of China, inflicted for minor offences, such as petty...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870-1872
Extent:
1 item

2. 1787.d.7, 3(14)

Reference (shelfmark):
1787.d.7, 3(14)
Title:
The cage punishment. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Portrait of a of a criminal encased in a wooden framework, from which his neck projects, 'so constructed that the prisoner has the choice of either suspending himself by the neck to relieve his toes, which just touch the board, or of standing on his t...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870-1872
Extent:
1 item

3. Photo 1000/31(3223)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/31(3223)
Title:
The Goal, formerly Azam Khan's Palace, Ahmadabad. Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography General view of Azam Khan's Palace, used at this time as a prison. India Museum no. 1466. Received from Captain Lyon 7 February 1871. Duplicate print at Photo 1001 (3223). Lyon supplies the following description in his 'Notes to accompany a series of photograph...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1869
Extent:
1 item

4. Photo 1188(21)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1188(21)
Title:
One of China'a most terrible methods of death punishment, Shanghai. Photographer: James Ricalton for Underwood and Underwood
Scope & Content:
From the photographer's (Ricalton) note printed on back of the card: 'This notorious pirate killed several persons. The last offense was the gouging out of a man's eyes. He is placed in this cage with with planks coming snugly around his neck; several flat stones are placed under his feet. He st...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item

5. Photo 1224/3(58)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1224/3(58)
Title:
An Execution. Photographer: Saunders, W.
Scope & Content:
With contemporary printed descriptive label: 'No. 32.- Decapitation. Our artist has seized the moment when the culprit, half stupefied with opium, having been shot out of the cage or basket in which he has reached the ground, has his queue firmly grasped and pulled over his head by a man who wil...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

6. Photo 1224/6(74)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1224/6(74)
Title:
Crucifixion and execution of rebels [Japan]. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
View of a young Japanese man, crucified on a wooden cross.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870s
Extent:
1 item

7. Photo 1224/6(75)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1224/6(75)
Title:
Crucifixion and execution of rebels [Japan]. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Numbered 2017 in the negative. View of a row of severed heads, displayed on wooden frames; the crucified figure seen in print 74 can also be seen in the background of this photograph.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870s
Extent:
1 item