Sujet

Head of a Chinese Criminal exposed in a Cage to his Children...1857. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Head of a Chinese Criminal exposed in a Cage to his Children, from a drawing by a Chinese artist...1857. 'The penal code of China...is marked by great barbarity. The punishments are in general most cruel, and ill proportioned to the crimes for which they are inflicted: for the slightest offence a mandarin is degraded, banished, and even deprived of all property. [The iIllustration is]...selected from a series of beautifully-executed drawings in colours, upon rice- paper, in a small folio volume, which has been obtained in Canton by an officer of the Hon. East India Company's Service...[It shows] the head of the criminal exposed in a cage whilst, as a climax to the punishment, his children are, by the merciful consideration of the Celestial authorities, made to take a moral lesson by looking at the disfigured head of their dead father'. From "Illustrated London News", 1857.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM23A76_366

Model release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

12,0Mo (555,2Ko) / 21,5cm x 14,0cm / 2538 x 1655 (300dpi)

Mots clés

people male child children man men head country law China Chinese guy crime British threatening color THREAT death chain cruelty location century Britain criminal newspapers press shock concept shocked punishment controversy B&W suffering humiliating humiliation cruel punishing example beheaded shocking controversial engraved engraving gruesome decapitated Colour condemned death sentence humiliated 19th century black & white black and white B W white and black condemnation decapitation nineteenth century The Print Collector beheading Illustrated London News severed head wood engraving ILN newspaper Unknown 19th-century penal code