Caption

Jurisdiction, torture and punishment in medieval China, punishment of a boatman. A type of penalty intended for boaters. After being convicted of misconduct, the boatswain is forced to kneel down: One of the judicial officers prevents him from backing away while another grabs him by the hair and gives him a certain number of blows on each side of the face with a type of double battledore made of thick leather, authentic, digitally restored reproduction from an 18th-century original, exact date of depiction unknown, historical

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Photo12/imageBROKER/Sunny Celeste

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BRK26B05_061

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Royalty free

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35,2Mb (613,4Kb) / 14,1in x 9,7in / 4242 x 2904 (300dpi)

Keywords

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