A torture chamber where one victim is tied up and suspended from a pulley while being interrogated by two scribes, while another victim is suspended from the ceiling and lowered onto a spike with his rectum. Etching by L.M. after V.V.
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1 print : etching, with engraving ; image 12.8 x 18.6 cm
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La tortura. V.V. dis. L.M. inc
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The artists whose monogrms are shown on this work (V.V. and possibly LCM) are unidentified. They have not been found in G.K. Nagler, Die Monogrammisten, München; G. Hirth, [1860]
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Wellcome Collection 43396i
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