RMADWBNE–Colonial Jamestown woman led to the ducking stool for public punishment 1600s. Hand-colored halftone of an illustration
RMP522TN–Pillory of public punishment. Middle Ages. Muro de Aguas. La Rioja. Spain.
RMC7H69P–pillory medieval physical punishment public humiliation victim market scorn offender criminal corporal crime law ridicule
RMRJN30F–Illustration showing a baker who has given short measure (cheated), dragged to a pillory for public punishment. England 15th century
RMBD4HNT–Pirate, privater skeleton in iron cage for public display, punishment, Maritime Museum of Atlantic, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
RMBHFAC6–justice, penitentary system, public punishment for infringement, copper engraving, Vienna, late 18th century, private collection, bringing out muck, cutting hair, flogging, beating, street sweeping, Austria, historic, historical, people, Artist's Copyright has not to be cleared
RMCY4CF0–Pillory of public punishment. Middle Ages. Muro de Aguas. La Rioja. Spain.
RME5KEY5–A young boy poses for a photo with his hands and feet protruding from a pillory, a common public punishment for petty crimes in early Bermuda.
RM2HDY2HP–1986, historical, outside a school building, a male teacher and teenage boy demonstrate an ancient wooden 'foot and hand lock', known as the stocks, an instrument of corporal punishment, used to restrain and humiliate offenders. A key part of the stocks was the element of public punishment. It's last recored use in Britain was in 1872. The stocks differed from the pillory, which locked the head of the offender forcing them to stand and where custom dictated that their head and beard were shaved.
RMTA37D3–Public flogging in front of a crowd in the US - undated shot, c. 1910.
RMF96EJ3–Public punishment of a fisherman for stealing a bottle of wine at the Fortress of Louisbourg, Louisbourg National Historic
RMPN4G6W–Public Punishments In The Square - St Anna - Brazil, circa 1830 - Johann Moritz Rugendas
RMA4JBMH–Pillory In The Market, (1885). Artist: Unknown
RMT965AA–A scold's bridle was an instrument of punishment, as a form of torture and public humiliation. The device was an iron muzzle in an iron framework that enclosed the head. A bridle-bit, about 2 inches long and 1 inch broad, projected into the mouth and pressed down on top of the tongue.
RM2B00Y52–China: Child taunting a prisoner in a cangue, late 19th century. A cangue was a device that was used for public humiliation and corporal punishment in China and some other parts of East Asia and Southeast Asia until the early years of the 20th century. It was somewhat similar to the pillory used for punishment in the West, except that the board of the cangue was not fixed to a base, and had to be carried around by the prisoner.
RMC44JR4–Reenactment, a man in colonial era dress in stocks on Boston Common
RMM018MG–The pillory, a wooden or metal framework erected on a post, with holes for securing the head and hands which was used for punishment by public humiliation. From Ward and Lock's Illustrated History of the World, published c.1882.
RM2JR17JP–Cross & Pillory Lane, unusual road sign with name associated with historic form of punishment
RFGR29MJ–Old stocks in Llantrisant, South Wales
RM2BF5FF9–PUBLIC FLOGGING in the Sessions House Yard at the Old Bailey, London, 1795
RMF1M0AA–The Pillory - A medieval Custom - was a device made of a wooden or metal framework erected on a post, with holes for securing the head and hands, used for punishment by public humiliation.
RMC7H574–pillory gateway London bridge treason heresy medieval physical punishment public humiliation criminal corporal crime law
RMDYEH0N–A public hanging in Kentucky, U.S.A. A twenty-two year old black man convicted of the assault and murder of an old woman is led up the gallows steps.
RM2K699FR–EDITORIAL USE ONLY A private view of the Executions exhibition at the Museum of London Docklands, opening Friday 14 October, exploring London's 700 year history of public punishment. Picture date: Wednesday October 12, 2022.
RM2FN49DC–justice, penitentiary system, capital punishment, beheading of Eugen Weidmann by guillotine, ADDITIONAL-RIGHTS-CLEARANCE-INFO-NOT-AVAILABLE
RM2D7WDK3–History of the United States of America, 18th century. British colonies in North America. Loyalist captured and humiliated, being feathered by a group of Sons of Liberty. Engraving by Vernier. Panorama Universal. History of the United States of America, from 1st edition of Jean B.G. Roux de Rochelle's Etats-Unis d'Amérique in 1837. Spanish edition, printed in Barcelona, 1850.
RME5KEY4–A Bermudian traffic warden stops to have fun with a female tourist who has been 'locked' in an old-time wooden pillory as faux punishment in Bermuda.
RMAE5MD4–Law Punishment Flogging
RMAKMFCE–Stocks on the village green in the Cotswold village of Glympton near Oxford
RMB18MPJ–Public punishment of a fisherman for stealing a bottle of wine at the Fortress of Louisbourg, Louisbourg National Historic Site,
RMPNEFJH–Punishment of the big knout
RF2G4BHG8–Medieval pillory on the village church of Peetzen in Schaumburg
RMT965AB–A scold's bridle was an instrument of punishment, as a form of torture and public humiliation. The device was an iron muzzle in an iron framework that enclosed the head. A bridle-bit, about 2 inches long and 1 inch broad, projected into the mouth and pressed down on top of the tongue.
RM2B00Y4F–China: Three women wearing a cangue or form of portable stocks as a punishment, c. 1900. A cangue was a device that was used for public humiliation and corporal punishment in China and some other parts of East Asia and Southeast Asia until the early years of the 20th century. It was somewhat similar to the pillory used for punishment in the West, except that the board of the cangue was not fixed to a base, and had to be carried around by the prisoner.
RM2J2KEF5–A DAY OUT AT TYBURN - An old engraving showing a family attending a public hanging at Tyburn Gallows, England. At that time it was seen as a spectator event and often took on the form of a country fair with side shows and stalls being set up around the gallows. It was colloquially known as the Tyburn Tree , possibly from a tree originally used for hangings there, Public hangings ceased in this location in the late 1700s. ( possibly November 1783) Oxford Street at that time was known as Tyburn Road.
RME3XMJG–Punishment of the stocks .
RME64CEW–Old stocks in the public square, Stow-on-the-Wold, the Cotswolds, Gloucestershire, England
RMP67TEM–Photograph of a public execution of German soldiers in Kiev. Dated 1946
RMF81NN2–PUBLIC HANGING in 18th century London. At left a priest reds the last rites
RMERGPEB–Woman wearing a cangue, a device for public humiliation and corporal punishment. A typical cangue would consist of a large,
RMC7H69B–Stocks medieval physical punishment public humiliation victim market scorn offender criminal corporal crime law court ridicule
RMEC7PGX–Photograph of a public execution of German soldiers in Kiev. Dated 1946
RM2K699M6–EDITORIAL USE ONLY A private view of the Executions exhibition at the Museum of London Docklands, opening Friday 14 October, exploring London's 700 year history of public punishment. Picture date: Wednesday October 12, 2022.
RFK7BH7W–Joke public punishment in the stocks
RMC9CBGF–Public stocks with seat at Lewes castle
RM2B6NWKN–Geseling van een soldaat, 1786 De Gebritste Majesteit gekroond tot Wezel, wegens gehoonde taal tegen den Prins van orange (titel op object) Public punishment of a soldier for the honing of the prince of Orange. Flogging on a wooden trestle, in front of a group of soldiers and the crowd, 1786. The caption referring to the Hague Courant, Nos 20, 25 and 27. Manufacturer : printmaker: anonymous place manufacture: Northern Netherlands Date: 1786 Physical features: etching and engra materials : paper Technique: etching / engra (printing process) Measurements: sheet: h 178 mm × W 198 mm Subject: flog
RMMHMHPT–A criminal publicly exposed at Copenhagen, made to walk through the streets in a barrel with a guard on either side of him. Date: late 18th century
RMEAHHAY–Public punishment of a fisherman for stealing a bottle of wine at the Fortress of Louisbourg, Louisbourg National Historic Site,
RMB18MPN–Children and their carers look on during the public punishment of a fisherman for stealing a bottle of wine at the Fortress of L
RM2CP924H–A man in a cangue in Shanghai, circa 1890. A cangue or tcha is a device that was used for public humiliation and corporal punishment in East Asia and some other parts of Southeast Asia until the early years of the twentieth century
RMR7W6G4–Italy, Apulia, Bari, Old Town or Bari Vecchia, Piazza Mercantile, the infamous column and the lion of justice, place of public punishment of debtors in medieval times
RMT965D1–Cucking stools or ducking stools were chairs formerly used for punishment of disorderly women, scolds, and dishonest tradesmen. An instrument of public humiliation and censure. The ducking-stool was a strongly made wooden armchair in which the offender was seated, an iron band being placed around her so that she should not fall out during her immersion. The earliest record of the use of such is towards the beginning of the 17th century, with the term being first attested in English in 1597.
RMCNTP1T–ancient world, Roman Empire, people, slaves, public flogging of a slave, after mural painting, Pompeii, 1st century AD, justice, beating, punishment, spectators, audience, Romans, slavery, antiquity, historic, historical, ancient world, Additional-Rights-Clearences-Not Available
RMWWANDG–PUNISHMENTS & INSTRUMENTS OF TORTURE FROM THE PAST - A man in a pillory. This form of humiliation was reserved for prisoners who would generally not be liable to execution (e.g. debtors) and would see them exposed to public view in a market or other public place and could be used for punishment by birch, cane or whip or for the cutting off of hair or a body part (e.g. ear|)
RMME0085–A Drunkard's cloak, a type of pillory used to punish miscreants. Drunkards were made to wear a barrel which had openings cut in the sides, top and bottom for their arms, head and legs, they were then paraded through the streets as punishment. From Old England: A Pictorial Museum, published 1847.
RME5JKT8–Old stocks in the public square, Stow-on-the-Wold, the Cotswolds, Gloucestershire, England
RMTXGY5N–The Pillory. Four men being punished in the pillory jeered at by a crowd. By this date among crimes punishable by pillory were embezzlement of state property, perjury and swindling 1805 Aquatint from WH Pyne 'Costume of England' London
RFH61K6F–RECONSTRUCTED PILLORY, KOTOR, MONTENEGRO - CIRCA AUGUST, 2016. A reconstructed medieval pillory stands in front of the Clock Tow
RMERGBPF–Woman on a ducking stool. Historical punishment for 'common scold' - woman considered a public nuisance by English/Welsh and
RMB6YB6J–the pillory 16th centuary punishment public humiliation lethal physical abuse
RMDYEYEG–Painting depicting 'Auto-da-fé' during the Spanish Inquisition. An auto-da-fé was the ritual of public penance of condemned heretics and apostates that took place when the Spanish Inquisition or the Portuguese Inquisition had decided their punishment.
RM2K699MF–EDITORIAL USE ONLY A private view of the Executions exhibition at the Museum of London Docklands, opening Friday 14 October, exploring London's 700 year history of public punishment. Picture date: Wednesday October 12, 2022.
RFK7BHBP–Joke public punishment in the stocks
RFR000TF–Castelo de Vide, Portugal - September 11, 2017: Town Pillory. Where the public justice and punishment was executed. Alto Alentejo
RF2E97JFY–Crowd Gathers to Watch Public Hanging or Execution in Abyssinia Ethiopia Africa 1911 Vintage Illustration or Engraving
RMKKE5RK–RAINEY BETHEA (c 1909-1936) was the last person to be executed in public in the USA. Bethea on the scaffold at Owensboro, Kentucky on 14 August 1936.
RMEAHHAR–Public punishment of a fisherman for stealing a bottle of wine at the Fortress of Louisbourg, Louisbourg National Historic Site,
RMB18MPX–A convicted fisherman at the Carcan being placed in the iron collar during a public punishment session for stealing a bottle of
RMFKWD69–Execution by garroting in Spain 1900. French illustrated newspaper Le Petit Parisien illustration
RMEHJ712–Public guillotining of Pierre Vaillat in Lons-le-Saunier, France
RMT95462–German postcard depicting medieval punishment for a card cheat. Public humiliation is the dishonoring showcase of a person, usually an offender or a prisoner, especially in a public place. It was regularly used as a form of punishment in former times, and is still practiced by different means in the modern era. Ernest Nister (1841-1906) was a publisher and printer of movable books for children and paper ephemera such as greeting cards, post cards, and calendars.
RMFF6PWY–justice, penitentiary system, flogging, public flaggelation, after pen drawing, wood engraving, 19th century, 19th century, Middle Ages, medieval, mediaeval, graphic, graphics, jurisdiction, penalty, penalties, punishments, corporal punishment, marketplace, market-place, flogging, flog, whipping, whip, whips, viewer, viewers, audience, audiences, public flaggelation, historic, historical, people, crowd, crowds, Additional-Rights-Clearences-Not Available
RMTWWD4F–BEGGAR BANGING - Whipping a beggar in Britain in Medieval Times (Corporal Punishment) whilst a criminal can be seen hung in public (Capital Punishment)
RM2AP5XRC–In 16th century England professional card sharks with marked packs and loaded dice took advantage of simple people, this was only one of many criminal activities into which people were forced by unemployment. Seen here one such criminal having been caught is being taken for punishment which was public and severe.
RM2C5WBG1–An old engraving showing a 'drunkard's cloak' ('drunk's cloak' or a 'Newcastle cloak' in the north of England). Wearing this in public was a form of punishment and shame. It was used in from the Middle Ages onwards for people who abused alcohol. It comprised of a wooden barrel worn by the accused, which had a hole cut in the top for the person's head and sometimes two holes in the sides for their arms.
RMTXGY0M–Man, looking as if he has been in a drunken brawl, serving his sentence in the village stocks. Attached to stocks is the pillory post with constraints for the arms. 1834 Lithograph London
RF2DCYNFR–Medieval pillory for public punishment and torture.
RM2PY6HNE–Chinese women prisoners with their necks enclosed in stocks or cangue, public humiliation, Corporal punishment, China 1890s, 19th Century
RMC7H67P–pillory medieval physical punishment William lawyer author polemicist political figure Puritan
RMAE1RW3–Puritan offender in the stocks Massachusetts Bay Colony 1600s. Hand-colored woodcut
RM2K699MC–EDITORIAL USE ONLY A private view of the Executions exhibition at the Museum of London Docklands, opening Friday 14 October, exploring London's 700 year history of public punishment. Picture date: Wednesday October 12, 2022.
RMDRF4F7–Jakarta, Indonesia - A public Flogging
RMKK93HR–Etching depicting a group of men beating the soles of the feett of a man that is laying on the ground, his legs tied to a piece of wood, titled 'The Bastinado', referring to a method of corporal punishment which consists in hitting the undersides of a person's feet, 1852. From the New York Public Library.
RF2E97JFR–Crowd Gathers to Watch Public Humiliation, Punishment or Beating with Planks Sudan 1911 Vintage Illustration or Engraving
RMKKE5T2–RAINEY BETHEA (c 1909-1936) was the last person to be executed in public in the USA. Bethea on the scaffold at Owensboro, Kentucky on 14 August 1936.
RMEAHHB2–A woman banters during a public punishment of a fisherman for stealing a bottle of wine at the Fortress of Louisbourg, Louisbour
RMG1CX71–Scold's bridle, used as a form of torture and public humiliation, primarily for women. Dated 18th Century
RF2DA3FA9–ostracism scapegoat public society accusation or bully blaming people
RF2HBED4F–Reproduction Wooden Village Stocks Punishment Device In Christchurch Dorset UK
RMT9547C–A cangue is a device that was used for public humiliation and corporal punishment in China and some other parts of East Asia and Southeast Asia until the early years of the 20th century. A typical cangue would consist of a large, heavy flat board with a hole in the center large enough for a person's neck. The board consisted of two pieces. These pieces were closed around a prisoner's neck, and then fastened shut along the edges by locks or hinges.
RMBHFBP8–justice, penitentary system, execution, public torture and burning of the vagabond familiy Pappenheimer, Munich, 28.7.1600, woodcut, broadsheet by Michael Manger, Augsburg, 1600, private collection, punishment, fleaflet, news, newspaper, media, press, Bavaria, Germany, 17th century, historic, historical, people,
RM2DANAEP–A circa 1700 woodcut engraving showing the Tyburn Tree (tripple gallows)
RMB47KEF–Ducking stool used in the 15th century for the punishment of disorderly women, scolds and dishonest tradesmen.
RM2C5WBFX–An old engraving showing a burning at the stake in the Middle Ages - the 'Windsor Martyrs' at Windsor, Berkshire, England, UK in 1543. In England, burning was a legal punishment inflicted on women found guilty of high treason, petty treason and heresy. Over a period of several centuries, female convicts were publicly burnt at the stake, sometimes alive, for a range of activities. While men guilty of heresy (as in this engraving) were also burned at the stake, those who committed high treason were instead hanged, drawn and quartered. Public executions were well-attended events.
RMPX76R5–A man and woman held in Medieval Stocks, restraining devices that were used as a form of corporal punishment and public humiliation. They consisted of of large wooden boards with hinges for restraining one's feet. The victims may be insulted, kicked, tickled, spat on, or subjected to other inhumane acts.
RMKJKY31–Tyburn Gallows at the time of Charles I
RMRYDB3T–Cruelty of shah Sefi, which shows a young man cut off his father's ears and nose, print maker: Jan Luyken, Charles Angot, 1689
RMHPEE5M–Antique 1854 engraving, Sitting in the Stocks. SOURCE: ORIGINAL ENGRAVING.
RMA8FDK9–Offender punished by standing in the pillory in a Puritan seaport town 1600s. Hand-colored woodcut
RM2K6999A–EDITORIAL USE ONLY Charlene Douglas attends a private view of the Executions exhibition at the Museum of London Docklands, opening Friday 14 October, exploring London's 700 year history of public punishment. Picture date: Wednesday October 12, 2022.
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