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Issue of Le Progres depicting the executions of anarchists in Xeres in 1892 by use of the garrotte.

#execution #garotting

"The Witch, No. 1", artist Joseph E Baker, 1837-1914,

#witchcraft

Rorschach test

#rorschach test #psychology

Illustration of the execution of Hugh the Younger Despenser, from a manuscript of Froissart.

Loyset Liédet 1470

#execution #Loyset Liedet

Ukiyo-e woodblock print of warrior about to perform seppuku

edo period (1850-1860)

signed Kunikazu Utagaw

#seppuku #evisceration #dismemberment

Titian, "The Flaying of Marsyas" (1575)

#flaying #titian

Vertical impalement

#impalement #execution

An 1858 illustration from the French newspaper "Le Monde Illustré" of the torture and execution of a French missionary in China by slow slicing. In this form of execution, the condemned person was killed by using a knife to methodically remove portions of the body over an extended period of time.

#slow slicing #torture #execution

The statue of Perseus by Benvenuto Cellini is located in front of the Loggia dei Lanzi in the Signoria district of Florence Italy (Firenza). The 1554 statue depicts a decapitation that was intended as a warning to enemies of Cosimo I

#decapitation #benvenuto cellini

"The Execution of Louis XVI"

#execution

Water torture 1556

#torture

Arresting a Witch

A generic scene that shows a woman being arrested for witchcraft, depicted conventionally as an old hag by the famous illustrator Howard Pyle. The picture illustrates an article by T. W. Higginson, "The Second generation of Englishmen in America," which briefly describes the Salem witch trials. Artist Howard Pyle. Source: Harpers New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 67, (June - November), 1883: 221.

#witchcraft

Belgian autopsy

#autopsy

Plague, Arnold Bocklin 1898. Kunstmuseum, Basel (Switzerland)

#plague #arnold bocklin

Gunshot Fracture of the Tibia and Fibula

Gunshot Roentgenograms:A Series of Roentgenograms Taken in Constantinople during the Turko-Balkan War 1912-1913, Illustrating Some Gunshot Wounds in the Turkish Army. Clyde S. Ford, 1915.

#fracture

Chart of Hell

Botticelli, Sandro Chart of Hell, c.1480-c.1495. Vat. Lat. 1896. Reproduced with permission of the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.

#hell #sandro botticelli

19th century bloodletting set

#bloodletting

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