Punishment Collection (#18)

Christ on the Cross, 17th century. Artist: Hermann Weyer
Christ on the Cross, 17th century. From the collection of the Museum of Fine Art, Budapest, Hungary

La Justice Eternelle, Franco-Prussian war, 1870-1871. Frances defeat in the war was a national humiliation and resulted in the downfall of the French Second Empire

The Martyrdom of St Sebastian, 16th century. Artist: Gregorio Lopez
The Martyrdom of St Sebastian, 16th century. Sebastian was born in Gaul and was a member of the Emperor Diocletians Praetorian Guard. As a Christian he was sentenced to be executed by archers

The Beheading of John the Baptist, c1630. The executioner holds up St Johns bleeding head for Salome to receive on a golden platter. From a Private collection

Arrest and Stoning of St Stephen, mid 15th century. Artist: Fra Angelico
Arrest and Stoning of St Stephen, mid 15th century. St Stephen (dc35), a deacon of the early Christian church in Jerusalem, was found guilty of blasphemy by the Sanhedrin

Finnish or Russian bath, 19th century. Men and women in a steam bath or sauna. On the left men are throwing water into a furnace to create steam while on the right a woman is having cold water poured

Execution of Kemmler, the first man to die in the electric chair, USA, 6 August 1890
Execution of Kemmler, the first man to die in the electric chair, Auburn Prison, USA, 6 August 1890. William Kemmler, a brute who chopped a woman to bits with an axe

Pilate Condemns Christ and St Peter Denies Him, Ivory Panel, Byzantine Casket, early 5th century

The Stoning of St Paul, Ivory Panel from Casket, Rome, late 4th century. At British Museum

Red figured Nestoris (wine-jar), Lucania, , c390-c380 BC
Red figured Nestoris (wine-jar), Artemis and Actaeon, Lucania, c390BC-c380 BC. Aktaion changed to a stag by Artemis and killed by his hounds

Florence. Adam and Eve after the Fall, Brussels Tapestry, 1548, (20th century) Artists: Pieter Coecke van Aelst
Florence. Adam and Eve after the Fall, Brussels Tapestry, 1548, (20th century). In the gallery of the Accademia, Florence. Design attributed to Pieter Coecke van Aelst, ca

Hells Mouth from the Last Judgement, detail from Retable, c1400. From a Swedish church at Museum of National Antiquites, Stockholm

Old cross and stocks in village market square, Ripley, Yorkshire, 20th century. Artist: CM Dixon
Old cross and stocks in village market sqyare, Ripley, Yorkshire, 20th century. Stocks were devices used in medieval times as a form of physical punishment and public humiliation

Stocks Outsde Martock (All Saints) Church, Somerset, 20th century. Artist: CM Dixon
Stocks Outsde Martock (All Saints) Church, Somerset, 20th century. Dating from 13th century and designated as a Grade I listed building

Grand procession of criminals sentenced by the Inquisition of Lisbon, 18th century
Grand procession to the auto-da-fe of criminals sentenced by the Inquisition of Lisbon, 18th century

Burning of heretics sentenced by the Inquisition, 1759. From Histoire des Inquisitions (History of the Inquisitions). (Cologne, 1759)

The Hurlers, Stone Circles in Cornwall. Legend tells that they are men changed into stones for playing Cornish Hurling on a Sunday

St Margaret being boiled in oil, 16th century
St Margaret being boiled in oil, on a limewood altarpiece from north Germany, 16th century

Joseph and Potiphars wife andJoseph in prison interpreting dreams, 14th century
Joseph and Potiphars wife and, below, Joseph in prison interpreting the dreams of the baker and the butler, from the Golden Haggadah, a medieval Jewish manuscript from Spain

The Musical Contest between Apollo and Marsyas, 1630. Artist: Poelenburgh, Cornelis, van (1594 / 95-1667)
The Musical Contest between Apollo and Marsyas, 1630. Found in the collection of the Hallwylska Museet, Stockholm

Depiction of the flagellation of Christ on a Swedish chest, 18th century
Depiction of the flagellation of Christ, as a detail from a carved and painted Swedish wooden chest, in the collection of the Nordika Museum in Stockholm, 18th century

Detail of an ivory crucifix, from the Archaeological Museum in Madrid

Crucifixion scene from an altar-piece, 17th century
Crucifixion scene from a Norwegian altar-piece at Oslo Folk Museum in Norway, 17th century

Splendid Jem amongst the convicts in the Naval Dock Yard at Chatham, Kent, 1821. Artist: Isaac Robert Cruikshank
Splendid Jem, once a dashing hero in the Metropolis, recognised by Tom amongst the convicts in the Naval Dock Yard at Chatham, 1821

Prison hulk at Deptford, London, c1826. These convict hulks were an intermediate confinement between an ordinary gaol or transportation

Prison hulk Warrior at Woolwich, London, 1848. This hulk held 600 and was an intermediate confinement between an ordinary gaol or transportation

Convict ward on board the prison hulk Warrior at Woolwich, London, 1848. This hulk held 600 and was an intermediate confinement between an ordinary gaol or transportation

Chapel on board the prison hulk Warrior at Woolwich, London, 1848. This hulk held 600 and was an intermediate confinement between an ordinary gaol or transportation

On board a prison hulk, 1848. A warder watching prisoners entering their ward on board convict hulk Warrior at Woolwich. This hulk held 600

Execution of Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, Oxford, 1556 (mid 19th century)
Execution of Thomas Cranmer, Protestant Archbishop of Canterbury, Oxford, 1556 (mid 19th century). Thomas Cranmer (1489-1556)

Hell: the city of Dis, Roman god of the underworld, 1863. Artist: Gustave Dore
Hell: the city of Dis, Roman god of the underworld, 1863. Dante and Virgil observing sinners burning in Hell. From Inferno, first part of Divina Commedia by Dante Alighieri

Execution of conspirators at Amboise, French Religious Wars, March 1560 (1570). Artist: Jacques Tortorel
Execution of conspirators at Amboise, French Religious Wars, March 1560 (1570). Execution by hanging or decapitation by the sword of conspirators in the Amboise Enterprise

Punch cartoon on the sinking of the Lusitania, 1915. Artist: Bernard Partridge
Punch cartoon on the sinking of the Lusitania, 1915. A German submarine torpedoed the Lusitania off the Irish coast on 7 May 1915. Although unarmed, she was carrying munitions

Prison discipline, 1884. A Dartmoor prisoner doing solitary punishment at the crank handle. In some prisons this soul-destroying task was put to use such as grinding flour

Dante and Virgil looking down upon souls in torment in the inferno, 1863. Artist: Gustave Dore
Dante and Virgil looking down upon souls in torment in the inferno, 1863. Italian poet Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) was a great admirer of Virgil, and in his Divina Commedia (Divine Comedy)

Expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden, c1860. An angel with a flaming sword supervises the expulsion of Adam and Eve, wearing aprons of fig leaves, from Paradise

The Pied Piper leading away the children of Hamelin, c1899. Illustration from a childrens book. The story of the Pied Piper is best known in the English-speaking world from Robert Brownings poem

February - Cutting Weather, 1839. Artist: George Cruikshank
February - Cutting Weather, 1839. A typical day at Dr Swishtails Academy. Boys at their desks look on as the schoolmaster punishes a boy by flogging him with the birch

Transportation to Australia, c1830. A convict in chains bidding farewell, perhaps for ever, before being rowed out to join the convict ship bound for Australia

Prison discipline, 1888. Prisoners at hard labour on the treadwheel in an English local jail. The prisoner had 15 minutes on, 5 minutes off the wheel, until his time was finished for the day

Aztec education of boys (left) and girls (right). Boys are shown being punished by a father who holds him over a fire of burning chillies while lecturing him

Schoolboy having knowledge beaten into him with the birch, 1526
Schoolboy having knowledge beaten into him with the birch, a scene familiar to schoolboys in Europe and Britain. Illustration for February from Les petites Heures a l usage de Chartres, 1526

Extraordinary Mildness of the Political Season, 1869. Artist: John Tenniel
Extraordinary Mildness of the Political Season, 1869. Disraeli congratulating Gladstone on the Sovereigns speech at Opening of Parliament

Hell, 12th century. Engraving after a miniature in a 12th century manuscript, Hortus deliciarum, produced in a monastery at Hohembourg

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, 1498. Artist: Albrecht Durer
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, 1498. Illustration of the Revelation of St John from the Bible. An Archangel watches as four agents of destruction

National Recompense!, 1893. Artist: Henri Meyer
National Recompense!, 1893. Eugene Turpin, French chemist who invented the explosive material melinite, in prison. A print from the Le Petit Journal, 21st January 1893

Sons of Freedom, Hear My Story, 1834. A man, looking as if he has been in a drunken brawl, serving his sentence in the village stocks

A pillory, 1805. Artist: William Henry Pyne
A pillory, 1805. Four men being punished in the pillory, being pelted with rubbish and jeered at by a crowd. By this date among crimes punishable by pillory were embezzlement of state property

All Professionally Made to Order for Quick Shipping