Ordeal Collection

A Rape in the Stone Age, 1888. Artist: Paul Joseph Jamin
A Rape in the Stone Age, 1888. From the Musee des Beaux-Arts, Reims, France

The Coup de Lance, 1593. Creator: Jan Wierix
The Coup de Lance, 1593. From Evangelicae Historiae Imagines

Le calvaire des six cents otages; Vue interieure de la grange de Milejgany ou furent... 1918
Le calvaire des six cents otages; Vue interieure de la grange de Milejgany ou furent parques plus de 450 otages; la neige entrait par la porte qu'il fallait laisser ouverte pour voir clair, 1918

Le calvaire des six cents otages; Etable de Milejgany, pres de Zosie, ou cent cinquante... 1918
Le calvaire des six cents otages; Etable de Milejgany, pres de Zosie, ou cent cinquante otages demeurerent sans feu, pendant une semaine, par plus de 20 degres de froid, 1918

Le Grossier Envahisseur; L'epreuve de chaque jour de la femme Francaise en pays... 1914. Creator: Lucien Jonas
Le Grossier Envahisseur; L'epreuve de chaque jour de la femme Francaise en pays envahi: loger l'intrus sous le toit d'ou l'epoux est parti pour repondre a l'appel de la patrie

Mucius Scaevola before King Porsenna, 1533. Creator: Abraham Schöpfer
Mucius Scaevola before King Porsenna, 1533. Additional Info: This almost impossibly detailed picture is meticulously painted. And magnificent

The Red Water Ordeal, as Practised Among the Nations of Northern Guinea. Artist: J Le Conte
The Red Water Ordeal, as Practised Among the Nations of Northern Guinea. A print from The Faiths of the World, A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Sects, Volume II, by Reverend James Gardner

The Perilous Situation of Major Mony, When He Fell into the Sea with His Balloon, June 24, 1789. Creator: John Murphy
The Perilous Situation of Major Mony, When He Fell into the Sea with His Balloon on the 23rd of July, 1785, Off the Coast of Yarmouth; Most Providentially Discovered and Taken Up by the Argus Sloop

The Persecution of Job. Creator: Georg Pencz
The Persecution of Job

Satan Smiting Job with Boils, 1825. Creator: William Blake
Satan Smiting Job with Boils, 1825

Jobs Evil Dreams, 1825. Creator: William Blake
Jobs Evil Dreams, 1825

Queen Emmas Chastity tried by ordeal fire, 1773. Creator: William Walker
Queen Emmas Chastity tried by ordeal fire, 1773. Emma of Normandy (985-1052), walked over red hot metal without harm at Winchester Cathedral to prove her marital fidelity

Mrs Rowlandson and the Indians, 1676 (c1880). The wife of a Puritan minister, Mary Rowlandson (c1637-1711) was a colonist living in the frontier village of Lancaster, Massachusetts

The ordeal trial practis d by the Gentoos, c1770. European depiction of cultural practices in South India

The ordeal of cold water, (c1920). Artist: Richard Caton Woodville II
The ordeal of cold water, (c1920). Illustration from Story of the British Nation, Volume I, Walter Hutchinson, (London, c1920s)

Head of Christ Crowned with Thorns, 1622-1623, (1912). Artist: Guido Reni
Head of Christ Crowned with Thorns, 1622-1623, (1912). A colour print from Famous Paintings, with an introduction by Gilbert Chesterton, Cassell and Company, (London, New York, Toronto, 1912)

The Ordeal Trial, 1792. Practised by the Gentoos [Telugu people] in the East Indies

Fire and Water, The Magic Flute, 1816. Artist: Karl Friedrich Schinkel
Fire and Water, The Magic Flute, 1816. Stage design by Karl Freidrich Schinkel for The Magic Flute (Die Zauberflote), showing fire and water, two of the ordeals that Tamino, the hero

A Quack in the Right Place, 1864. Artist: John Tenniel
A Quack in the Right Place; Or, What we Should Like to See, 1864. A quack doctor is pelted with his own preparations, together with carrots and the occasional dead cat

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