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  • The punishments of China / illustrated by twenty-two engravings: with explanations in English and French. [Anon].
  • A Chinese man is attached by the neck and the ankles to a metal rod. Coloured stipple print by J. Dadley, 1801.
  • A Chinese man carrying the cangue around his neck as a punishment. Halftone, 19--.
  • A Chinese man is seated in a wooden cage. Coloured stipple print by J. Dadley, 1801.
  • A Chinese man and woman shown with their necks enclosed in stocks known as the 'cangue'. Gouache painting on rice-paper, 1780/1880?.
  • The new and complete Newgate calendar; or, villany displayed in all its branches ... Containing ... narratives ... of the various executions and other exemplary punishments ... in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, from the year 1700 to the present time / by William Jackson.
  • Maimed, diseased and dying former soldiers lie by the roadside with a priest attending to them. Etching after J. Callot, ca. 1633.
  • The new and complete Newgate calendar; or, villany displayed in all its branches ... Containing ... narratives ... of the various executions and other exemplary punishments ... in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, from the year 1700 to the present time / by William Jackson.
  • Prisoners in Rangoon working a treadmill. Process print after Watts & Skeen.
  • The new and complete Newgate calendar; or, villany displayed in all its branches ... Containing ... narratives ... of the various executions and other exemplary punishments ... in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, from the year 1700 to the present time / by William Jackson.
  • A Chinese man with bound feet being led to execution by two Chinese men holding swords. Coloured stipple print by J. Dadley, 1801.
  • A Chinese courtroom (?): a woman is shown being beaten, as she kneels before a formally-dressed official, who is writing at a desk. Gouache painting on rice-paper, 1780/1880?.
  • A Chinese woman sentenced to have her feet cut off is carried to the torturer; the judge is seated behind a desk. Wood engraving by L. Dumont, 1864, after L. Janet-Langer.
  • The punishment of criminal soldiers by hanging them in large numbers on a tree. Etching after Jacques Callot, ca. 1633.
  • A Chinese interpreter kneeling with a stick behind his knees is being tortured by two men standing on the stick. Coloured engraving by A. Freschi, 1812.
  • A Chinese man preparing to be executed by decapitation: the man is shown being made to kneel on the ground, while the executioner raises his sword. Gouache painting on rice-paper, 18--?.
  • A Chinese officer is leading a prisoner away while a second officer holding a sword is standing behind him. Coloured stipple print by J. Dadley, 1801.
  • Page 9: a courtroom scene showing a judge passing sentence on a couple. Watercolour drawing.
  • A Chinese man is hanging up from a rope attached to a wooden structure and resting on a bamboo stick held by two Chinese men. Coloured stipple print by J. Dadley, 1801.
  • The new and complete Newgate calendar; or, villany displayed in all its branches ... Containing ... narratives ... of the various executions and other exemplary punishments ... in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, from the year 1700 to the present time / by William Jackson.
  • The new and complete Newgate calendar; or, villany displayed in all its branches ... Containing ... narratives ... of the various executions and other exemplary punishments ... in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, from the year 1700 to the present time / by William Jackson.
  • A Chinese man with bound feet is tied to a stump by the neck with a chain and a tube of bamboo. Coloured stipple print by J. Dadley, 1801.
  • Peasants avenging themselves by attacking soldiers from woods next to a country road. Etching after Jacques Callot, ca. 1633.
  • The new and complete Newgate calendar; or, villany displayed in all its branches ... Containing ... narratives ... of the various executions and other exemplary punishments ... in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, from the year 1700 to the present time / by William Jackson.
  • A poacher is ducked in a pond by a landowner as a punishment for shooting ducks. Lithograph after R. Seymour.
  • A Chinese man seated in a pillory (cangue). Coloured stipple print by J. Dadley, 1801.
  • Maimed soldiers dragging themselves to a hospital. Etching, 1730, after Jacques Callot, ca. 1633.
  • A Chinese man wearing a cangue (portable pillory) and a Chinese man lying on the ground, being whipped. Wood engraving, ca. 1860.
  • A boy slave in Zanzibar punished by being forced to stand with a heavy piece of wood on his head which is chained to his ankle. Process print by C.H., 1896, after W.K. Firminger.
  • A Chinese man seated on a square block of wood is tied to it with a chain round his neck. Coloured stipple print by J. Dadley, 1801.