Painful Collection

The five senses (touch), 1642-1650. Creator: Jan Dirksz Both
The five senses (touch), 1642-1650

The dentist, 1523. Creator: Lucas van Leyden
The dentist, 1523. A dentist, clad in a large, fanciful hat and an ornate robe, probing the teeth of a clearly agonised, impoverished peasant

The War in Denmark: temporary field hospital...scene in the amputating hut... 1864. Creator: Unknown
The War in Denmark: temporary field hospital behind the second Prussian parallel at Duppel: scene in the amputating hut - from a sketch by our special artist

Englishwoman martyred by the Chinese, 1930. Creator: Unknown
Englishwoman martyred by the Chinese, 1930. Une Anglaise Martyrisee Par Des Chinois. A terrified woman is restrained as her fingers are cut off with a knife on a wooden block

A quack and his patients. Creator: Adriaen van Ostade
A quack and his patients.

Oda Udaijin Taira no Nobunaga in Flames at the Temple Honnoji, Published in 1878. Creator: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Oda Udaijin Taira no Nobunaga in Flames at the Temple Honnoji, Published in 1878. From A Mirror of Famous Generals of Japan

Head of Nitta Yoshisada, 19th century. Creator: Unknown
Head of Nitta Yoshisada, 19th century

Appuyez fort, ça fait rentrer la bosse... 1838. Creator: Honore Daumier
Appuyez fort, ca fait rentrer la bosse... 1838. Appuyez fort, ca fait rentrer la bosse - (L'enfant) Oh! la...oh!...la la la...la...C'est ca appuyez toujours il n'y a rien de meilleur

The dentist, 1748-1798. Creator: Willem Joseph Laquy
The dentist, 1748-1798

A Surgeon Operating on a Foot. The Five Senses: The Sense of Touch, 1637-1656. Creator: Anthonie Victoryns
A Surgeon Operating on a Foot. The Five Senses: The Sense of Touch, 1637-1656

The foot operation, 1630-1647. Creator: Pieter Jansz. Quast
The foot operation, 1630-1647

Italian Marketplace with a Quack Dentist, 1651. Creator: Johannes Lingelbach
Italian Marketplace with a Quack Dentist, 1651. Other Title(s): Marketplace in an Italian Town, with an Itinerant Toothpuller

Le Martyre de Sainte Apolline, after 1628. Creator: Jacob Jordaens
Le Martyre de Sainte Apolline, after 1628. The Martyrdom of St Apollonia. A torturer pulls the saint's head back and tears out her teeth with pliers

A Turkish Court of Justice; The Bastinado, 1854. Creator: Unknown
A Turkish Court of Justice; The Bastinado, 1854. From "Cassells Illustrated Family Paper; London Weekly 31/12/1853 - 30/12/1854"

My First and Last Experience of a Broncho, 1891. Creator: Unknown
My First and Last Experience of a Broncho, 1891. From "The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper", Volume 44. July to December, 1891

Drawing: Expressions of Emotion (Hate or Jealousy, Anger, Desire, Physical Pain), from... 1762/77. Creator: A. J
Drawing: Expressions of Emotion (Hate or Jealousy, Anger, Desire, Physical Pain), from Encyclopedie, 1762/77

Painful (Itaso), from the series "Thirty-two Aspects of Women (Fuzoku sanjuniso)
Painful (Itaso), from the series " Thirty-two Aspects of Women (Fuzoku sanjuniso)", 1888

Yamauba Breast Feeding Kintaro, Japan, c. 1801 / 06. Creator: Kitagawa Utamaro
Yamauba Breast Feeding Kintaro, Japan, c. 1801/06

The Tooth Puller (plate 15), 1843. Creator: Charles Emile Jacque
The Tooth Puller (plate 15), 1843

Origin of the Gout, ca. 1810. Creator: Unknown
Origin of the Gout, ca. 1810

Peasant Attacked by Bees, c. 1622. Creator: Jacques Callot
Peasant Attacked by Bees, c. 1622

Peasant Attacked by Bees, c. 1617. Creator: Jacques Callot
Peasant Attacked by Bees, c. 1617

Satan Smiting Job with Boils, from Illustrations of the Book of Job, 1825-26

Acute Pain (Le Brun Travested, or Caricatures of the Passions), January 21, 1800

Plate 33 from Los Caprichos : To the Count Palatine (Al Conde Palatino. ), 1799
Plate 33 from Los Caprichos :To the Count Palatine (Al Conde Palatino.), 1799

Amputation, February 17, 1786. February 17, 1786. Creator: Thomas Rowlandson
Amputation, February 17, 1786

Acute Pain, 1800. 1800. Creator: Thomas Rowlandson
Acute Pain, 1800

Legerdemain, 1799 (?). 1799 (?). Creator: Thomas Rowlandson
Legerdemain, 1799 (?)

A Lesson in Constitutional Government, 1897. Creator: John Leech
A Lesson in Constitutional Government, 1897. A child holds its stomach in pain after over-eating. From " The Comic History of England" by Gilbert Abbott A Beckett

England captain Eddie Hapgood receives treatment for a broken nose after a match with Italy, 1934. Tom Whittaker (1898-1956), the England teams trainer, treats Hapgoods (1908-1973) broken nose

Pan and satyr, Pan removing a splinter from a satyrs foot. Roman, after a Greek statuary group of the 3rd century BC. Found in the collection of The Hermitage, St Petersburg

A London Nuisance Artist: Richard Dighton
A Pleasant Way to Lose an Eye, 1821. Plate IV of A London Nuisance. A butchers roundsman, not looking where he is going, has poked one of the horns of his tray in the eye of a passer by

An Unlucky Hit, 1821. Artist: Richard
An Unlucky Hit, 1821. Plate VI of A London Nuisance. A porter walks blindly along a street, carrying a cupboard or wardrobe, with the corner of which he has struck a lady in the forehead

Sunday Morning, c1825. Artist: George Hunt
Sunday Morning, c1825. Scene inside barbers shop; a hop boy receives a haircut (left); a large man being brutally shaved bellows with rage (centre)

An Exquisite Taste, with an Enlarged Understanding, 1827. Artist: G Hunt
An Exquisite Taste, with an Enlarged Understanding, 1827. A man suffering from gout, sittting at a table laden with food and drink

Egyptians plagued, 1480 (1964). According to the Book of Exodus, the Ten Plagues were inflicted by God on Egypt to persuade the Pharaoh to release the Israelite slaves. From the Cologne Bible

Hindu devotee on a bed of nails near the shrine of Kali, Calcutta, India, early 20th century(?)
Hindu devotee doing penance on a bed of nails near the shrine of Kali, Calcutta, India, early 20th century(?). Detail from a stereoscopic card

It is necessary to suffer to be beautiful, 1882-1884. Artist: EA Tilly
It is necessary to suffer to be beautiful, 1882-1884. A print from the La Gazette du Bon Ton. A print from La France et les Francais a Travers les Siecles, Volume IV, F Roy editor, A Challamel

Leo - Androcles and the Lion, 19th century. Artist: George Cruikshank
Leo - Androcles and the Lion, 19th century

Dentist, Pain (from the series The Five Senses ), 17th century. Artist: Andries Dirksz Both
Dentist, Pain (from the series The Five Senses ), 17th century. Found in the collection of the State Art Museum, Tula, Russia

Apparatus for reducing dislocations, 1544. The subject is placed on a bed with a windlass at either end. Ropes are attached to the area of dislocation and force is applied by turning the windlass

Christ Nailed to the Cross, c1481. Artist: Gerard David
Christ Nailed to the Cross, c1481. From the National Gallery, London

Hercules and Diomede, c mid 16th century (?). Artist: Vicenzo di Raffaello de Rossi
Hercules and Diomede, c mid 16th century (?). From the Room of the 500, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, Italy

Hypnosis subject suffering from imaginary toothache, 1891. An Irish physician using the pseudonym Dr Stanley gave a demonstration of hypnosis using the methods of French neurologist Jean Martin

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

Torturing a prisoner on the rack, Middle Ages. A 19th-century representation of a medieval torture device in use, from World of Wonders, published by Cassell and Co, (London, 1894)

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