ID: 84
Ressource_Provider: Jérôme Bourgon
Title: The Punishments of China, Illustrated by Twenty-two Engravings with Explanations in English and French
DocumentNature: Engraving
Topic: Miscellaneous
Description: The most widespread album on Chinese punishments in early 19th Europe, which resulted of the reworking of Chinese watercolors from a Canton workshop (Pu-quà) by British painter and engraver (Dadley), on request of a British soldier (Mason), who published them, joining comments in English and French to each of the 22 charts.
Particulars: The names of Mason, as the publisher, Pu-quà, the Chinese painter, and Dadley, the English painter and engraver, do not appear in the volume on Punishments, but only on a previous volume on Chinese costumes and customs. The complete similarity in conception and realization betray the authorship of the second. Both have been widely copied and pirated (see Malière and Alibert album, for instance)

Bibliography
  1:Name: MASON, George Henry, Pu-qùa (ill.), DADLEY (grav.) The Punishments of China, Illustrated by Twenty-two Engravings with Explanations in English and French
  2:Name: MALPIÈRE, D. Bazin de (pseudonyme de Louis Bazin?) La Chine. Mœurs, usages, costumes, arts et métiers, peines civiles et militaires, cérémonies religieuses, monuments et paysages, 2 vols.
  3:Name: ALIBERT, Jean-Pierre Album de la Chine

Artworks

	1:Title: Tribunal
	2:Title: Prison: prisoner (parade)
	3:Title: Trial: prisoner (parade)
	4:Title: Beating: bamboo
	5:Title: Stretching ears
	6:Title: Celestial Balance, or Tianping 天平 PUNISHMENT OF THE SWING. This man is suspended by his shoulders and ankles, in a very painful situation: at intervals, two attending officers afford some trifling alleviation of his sufferings, by supporting him with a bamboo, passed under his breast. Pencil, ink, and paper, are ready, to note down whatever he may say. This punishment, together with the preceding one, is chiefly inflicted upon such merchants as have been detected in committing frauds, impositions, or any other unwarrantable tricks of trade. ------------------------------------------------------------------- PUNITION DE LA SECOUSSE, OU BRANDILLOIRE. Cet homme est suspendu, par les épaules et les chevilles des pieds, dans une position très-doloureuse. Par intervalles, deux officiers, qui l'assistent, apportent quelque peu de soulagement à ses souffrances, en le soutenant avec un bambou passé sous sa poitrine. Un crayon, de l'encre, et du papier, sont prêts, pour tenir note de ce qu'il peut dire. Cette punition, avec la précédente, est principalement infligée aux marchands, qui ont été pris commettant des fraudes, des supercheries, ou tout autre tour insoutenable, de commerce.
	7:Title: Slapping the convict's face
	8:Title: Pressing legs
	9:Title: Press: legs
	10:Title: Press: fingers
	11:Title: Burning eyes torture BURNING A MAN'S EYES WITH LIME. A small quantity of unslacked lime is put into pieces of cotton cloth, and closely applied to the organs of sight. ------------------------------------------------------------------ MANIÈRE DE BRULER LES YEUX DES HOMMES, AVEC LA CHAUX. On met une petite quantité de chaux vive sur des pièces de toile de coton, et on les applique sur les organes de la vue.
	12:Title: Stocks and iron bar
	13:Title: Cangue supported by pilars
	14:Title: Collar chain
	15:Title: Cage: prisoner
	16:Title: Collar chain and bamboo
	17:Title: Cut: legs
	18:Title: Prisoner tied on a bed
	19:Title: Deportation: departure
	20:Title: Dead man walk (parade)
	21:Title: Strangulation
	22:Title: Decapitation

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