Pillory Collection

Punishment of the slanderer, 1777. Creator: Jan Brandes
Punishment of the slanderer, 1777. The slanderer is depicted on the one hand as a dung fly being hunted by a swallow. On the other hand, a man stands at the pillory in a Dutch summer landscape

A Moral Entertainment, Boston, 1938. Creator: Unknown
A Moral Entertainment, Boston, 1938. Copley Theatre..."A Moral Entertainment" by Richard Maibaum - An excursion into the early American Theatre'

Twentieth-century civilization; ["Causes and Cures of Crime", Mosby], 1916. Creator: Unknown
Twentieth-century civilization; ["Causes and Cures of Crime", Mosby], 1916

Une larme pour une goutte d'eau (Notre-Dame de Paris), 1903. Creator: Luc Olivier Merson
Une larme pour une goutte d'eau (Notre-Dame de Paris), 1903

"De Foe in the Pillory", by Eyre Crowe, from the exhibition of the Royal Academy, 1862. Creator: E. Skill
"De Foe in the Pillory", by Eyre Crowe, from the exhibition of the Royal Academy, 1862. Engraving of a painting

Pillory and Stocks of the Middle Ages, c1934. Illustration showing medieval punishment. The accompanying text explains that ridicule was regarded as a great remedy against minor offences

"Ancient London": Flogging a Nonconformist in Cheapside, 1862. Creator: Unknown
"Ancient London": Flogging a Nonconformist in Cheapside, 1862....a scene which the text of the book shows to have been not infrequent

Hudibras Triumphant (Twelve Large Illustrations for Samuel Butlers Hudibras, Plate 4), 1725-68

Hudibras Triumphant (Plate 4: Illustrations to Samuel Butlers Hudibras), 1725-30 (?)

Hudibras in Tribulation (Twelve Large Illustrations for Saumel Butlers Hudibras, Plate 6), February 1725-26

Hudibras in Tribulation (Seventeen Small Illustrations for Samuel Butlers Hudibras, no. 7), 1721-26

Sir Cecil Wray in the Pillory, May 7, 1784. May 7, 1784. Creator: Thomas Rowlandson
Sir Cecil Wray in the Pillory, May 7, 1784

Town hall, Gumpoldskirchen, Modling, Lower Austria, c1935. Creator: Unknown
Town hall, Gumpoldskirchen, Modling, Lower Austria, c1935. View of the Rathaus (town hall). pillory and fountain. The town hall, built during the Renaissance period, was originally a courthouse

Türkenturm, Breitenbrunn, Burgenland, Austria, c1935. Creator: Unknown
Turkenturm, Breitenbrunn, Burgenland, Austria, c1935. The Turkenturm, (Turks Tower), in Breitenbrunn am Neusiedler See is a former defence tower dating from the 17th century

Titus Oates in the Pillory, 1685, (1890). Creator: Unknown
Titus Oates in the Pillory, 1685, (1890). Titus Oates (1649-1705) English perjurer who fabricated the " Popish Plot", a Catholic conspiracy to kill King Charles II

The pillory. From the Coutumes de Toulouse, 1295-1297. Creator: Anonymous
The pillory. From the Coutumes de Toulouse, 1295-1297. Found in the Collection of Bibliotheque Nationale de France

Titus Oates in the Pillory, 1897. Creator: John Leech
Titus Oates in the Pillory, 1897. Titus Oates (1649-1705) was an Anglican priest who made up the story of the Popish Plot of 1678, a plot against the government

Titus Oates in the Pillory, 1685, (1897). Creator: Unknown
Titus Oates in the Pillory, 1685, (1897). Oates (1649-1705), an Anglican priest, fabricated an imaginary popish plot against the government

A view of the Corn Exchange... 1785. Christopher Atkinson standing in the pillory surrounded by a horde of people. He was at the time convicted of shady dealing in connection with the purchase of

Anticipation... 1784. Christopher Atkinson in the pillory between two sheaves of corn, outside the Corn Exchange, Mark Lane, London

Brothers in law! or the finishing flourish of a City officer!!, 1827; showing the Recorder Newman Knowlys tied to a post and being whipped by Sheriff Farebrother using a cat o nine tails

Mark Lane, London, 1783. Christopher Atkinson in the pillory outside the Corn Exchange, London, in the presence of the Sheriffs

Anticipations for the Pillory, 1813. A pillory stands on a scaffold in Chesterfield Walk outside Montague House, Blackheath, residence of the Princess of Wales

Daniel Defoe in the Pillory, Temple Bar, London, c1840?. Artist: JC Armytage
View of Daniel Defoe in the pillory at Temple Bar, London, c1840?, surrounded by a crowd

Taming a Shrew or Petruchios Patent Family Bedstead, Gag & Thumscrews, 1815
Taming a Shrew or Petruchios Patent Family Bedstead, Gag & Thumscrews, pub. London 1815 (hand coloured engraving)

Testis Ovat, Titus Oates in the pillory, 17th century (c1905). Testis Ovat is an anagram of Oates name. An Anglican priest, he made up the story of the Popish Plot of 1678

John Lilburne on the pillory at Westminster, 1638 (1905). Lilburne (1614-1657) was an English Leveller who campaigned for what he described as `freeborn rights` which every human being was born with

The pillory in Japan before the revolution, 1895. Artist: Hildibrand
The pillory in Japan before the revolution, 1895. From The Universal Geography with Illustrations and Maps, division XIV, written by Elisee Reclus and published by Virtue & Co. Limited (London, 1895)

William Prynne (1600-1669) in the pillory, c1902. From Cassells Illustrated History of England, volume III (c1902)

Pillory In The Market, (1885). Based on a popular print. The pillory was a device used in punishment by public humiliation

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

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