ID: 82
Ressource_Provider: Jérôme Bourgon
Title: Lingchi (woman)
DocumentNature: Watercolor
Size_x: 36
Size_y: 25
Repository: NYPL
Color: Hand-tinted
Caption: 11. Ling ch'ee (i.e. cutting off of the flesh of the criminal piece by piece
Particulars: The tortured person might be a woman, as her feet are bounded. This hypothesis is strenghtened by the shape of the breast, which would ranged this watercolor among the many inspired from St Agath martyrdom.
Topic: Lingchi 凌遲
Description: This image puts two different standard themes together: lingchi of a man, a condamned carried to the execution field in a basket.
Keyword: lingchi, woman, breasts, nipples, post, woman
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ANONYM Album Billings
Related Textual (1)
1 Title: Autour des prisons de Canton Ressource_Provider: Muriel Détrie Internal_Type: OCR Meta: p.409 ( Supplices chinois)
Related Replication (2)
1 Ressource_Provider: Jérôme Bourgon Title: Dead man walk (basket) Information: This current view of convicts brought to the execution field in baskets is confirmed by eyewitnesses' written testimony. Photographs show people walking, or carried by chart, to their death, but no basket.
2 Ressource_Provider: Jérôme Bourgon Title: Crucifixion-like lingchi (with breast tortures, mostly) Information: One of the most frequently reproduced model represented a convict, most of the time a woman, tyed on a pole similar to the Christian cross, and having his breast tortured as a preliminary to dismemberment. The model might have been provided by Christian iconography, for instance the "Martyrdom of St Agatha", who had her nipples cut by tortioners. Christian cross can also be found on crucifixion-like stranguation and decapitation. Variations include tortioners handling a kind of screen against blood pollution, and starting disembowelment instead of (or joined to?) breast wounds.
Related VisualSet (1)
1 Title: Album Billings DocumentNature: Watercolor
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