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Asian punishments
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Landscape showing how criminals in Asia are punished, under the supervision of, among others, an emperor and a priest. In the foreground, a man is being crushed to pieces in a mortar. Behind him, two dogs are near a man who has been thrown from a wall. Two people in the scene are buried alive, a third person is being dragged along the ground by an ass by her hands. In the background, people are being tortured on a cross. With a legend in French and Dutch. The print is part of an album.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineAziatische straffen. 1682 - 1733. Romeyn de Hooghe. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.