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Chinese paintings of punishments of criminals, c.1800-1900 Painting.
- Format:
- Other
- Language:
- No linguistic content
- Subjects (All):
- Albums.
- Art.
- Chinoiserie (Art).
- Commercial products.
- Courts.
- Crime.
- Culture.
- Law.
- Punishment.
- Torture.
- Watercolor painting.
- Genre:
- Paintings
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Production:
- [Place of production not identified] : [producer not identified], [approximately 1800-1900]
- Summary:
- The 12 paintings depict: 1. Magistrate in court -- 2. Arrest of criminals [sic, only one criminal is being arrested] -- 3. Punishment of criminal by parading him in the street -- 4. Slapping the mouth for telling lies -- 5. Punishment by stretching the criminal on a wooden bench [with another criminal confined in a barrel or bag of some sort] -- 6. Punishment by cangue, or wooden pillory -- 7. Torture by pressing the ancles [sic] of criminal with wooden poles -- 8. Bambooing his breeches [i.e. hitting the criminal on the buttocks with a bamboo pole] -- 9. Tying him to a stone -- 10. Banishment -- 11. Ling Ch'ee (i.e. cutting off the flesh of the criminal piece by piece) -- 12. Beheading - the capital punishment in China.
- Notes:
- AMDigital Reference: Col. 111, box 1, folder 6
- Please note that some of the metadata for this document has been drawn from the Winterthur Library catalogue.
- Title from publisher's website.
- Collection: The Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera
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