Copyright: Biblioteca Reale di Torino

ID: 123
Ressource_Provider: Enrico Sturani
Title: Strangulation
Date: ca 1850
DocumentNature: Watercolor
Repository: Biblioteca Reale di Torino
Color: Color
Topic: Strangulation 絞刑
Description: A man crucified in a standing position is strangled from behind by the executioner, witnessed by two complascent guards. The strangulation device is quite realistic, but the position of the executed man is obviously inspired from Christian crucifixion. The stamp of the Biblioteca Reale di Torino appears in the upper left corner.
Keyword: execution, strangulation, watercolor, executioner

Related Replication (1)

1  Ressource_Provider: Jérôme Bourgon
    Title: Crucifixion-like strangulation
    Information: This common way of representing the punishment of strangulation (jiao 絞) is likely to proceed from iconographic models than from real practice. More realistic views show, and some photographs, show that the various poles used with the garrote were not shaped like the Christian cross. The same model might have inspired these images, and the crucifixion-like decapitations or lingchi.

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