ID: 72
Reference: ANONYM, Album Billings (ca 1850)
Type de Bibliographie: Manuscript
Type de Texte: Album of images
Auteurs: ANONYM
Titre: Album Billings
Année: ca 1850
Keyword: chinese punishments, chinese cruelty
Résumé: Album of twelve plates representing standards situations of Chinese justice, from trial to execution, passing by various judicial tortures. No date, no place, no name. Billings is the name of the first head of the New York Public Library, to whom this anonymous work is dedicated.
Related Artworks (11)
Title: Beating: bamboo
Title: Cangue: men with family
Title: Collar chain: prisoners with fetters
Title: Dead man walk (parade)
Title: Decapitation
Title: Deportation: departure
Title: Lingchi (woman)
Title: Press: legs
Title: Slap: face
Title: Stretching ears of a prisonner in a barrel
Title: Tribunal
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