ID: 49
Ressource_Provider: Jérôme Bourgon
Title: Album Billings
DocumentNature: Watercolor
Topic: Undefined
Description: Album of twelve watercolors on pith paper, representing all standard scenes from tribunal to lingchi, passing by various judicial torture, all numbered and headed. Curious style of picture, recalling Persan miniature; characters are hardly Chinese types. Non information on the donator, Billings being the name of the first head of NYPL

Artworks

	1:Title: Tribunal "1.Magistrate in Court"
	2:Title: Dead man walk (parade) 2. Arrest of Criminals
	3:Title: Slap: face "4. Slapping the face for telling lies"
	4:Title: Stretching ears of a prisonner in a barrel 5. Punishment by stretching the criminal in a wooden bench
	5:Title: Cangue: men with family "6. Punishment by cangue, or wooden pillory"
	6:Title: Press: legs "7. Torture by pressing the ancles (sic.) of criminal with wooden pole"
	7:Title: Beating: bamboo 8. Bambooing his breeches
	8:Title: Collar chain: prisoners with fetters 9. Tying him to a stone
	9:Title: Deportation: departure 10. Banishment
	10:Title: Lingchi (woman) 11. Ling ch'ee (i.e. cutting off of the flesh of the criminal piece by piece
	11:Title: Decapitation "12. Beheading—the capital punishment in China"

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