Caption

Instrument of torture: The fiddle - The prisoner had to stick a leg through the holes, his arm was pushed through the second hole. As a result, he was placed in a curved, pain-relieving position, woodcut from 1864

Date

1864

Credit line

Photo12/imageBROKER/Sunny Celeste

Reference

BRK26B06_212

Model release

No

Property release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

43,2Mb (1,2Mb) / 16,7in x 10,1in / 5000 x 3017 (300dpi)

Keywords

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