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Public Punishments

Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki · 1770 · etching; paper

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

About this work

Four representations of public punishments. Top left a courtroom where a fine is being imposed. Top right a condemned man must run the gauntlet; in the background a man is being whipped. Bottom left an execution place. Bottom right a forced laborer, prisoners and men being exiled. Numbered in the lower middle: Tab XXXIV.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description

Subjects

print Johann Bernhard Basedow running the gauntlet banishment, exile

Credit lineOpenbare straffen. 1770. Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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