Caption

Jurisprudence, torture and punishment in medieval China, a criminal's legs are cut off. This punishment is said to have been imposed on wrongdoers who tried to flee. A vessel with chunam, a type of mortar, is ready to be applied to wounds as a hemostatic agent, authentic, digitally restored reproduction from an 18th century model, exact date of depiction unknown, historical

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Photo12/imageBROKER/Sunny Celeste

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BRK26B05_072

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No

Property release

No

License type

Royalty free

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35,8Mb (598,9Kb) / 14,3in x 9,7in / 4296 x 2910 (300dpi)

Keywords

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