Sujet

Medieval torture scene: The Estrapade, or Question Extraordinary, 1541, (1878). Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Medieval torture scene: The Estrapade, or Question Extraordinary, 1541, (1878). Torture consisted of gradually tightening the prisoner's restraints by turning a wheel until a confession was extracted or his life was endangered. After an engraving in "Praxis Criminalis Persequendi" by J. Millaeus, published in Paris in 1541. From "Moeurs, usages et costumes au moyen-âge et à l'époque de la Renaissance" by Paul Lacroix, Paris, 1878.

Date

1541

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/LTL

Notre référence

HRM26A20_105

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

41.7Mo (6.5Mo) / 26.1cm x 40.0cm / 3086 x 4724 (300dpi)

Mots clés

Europe portrait people male group man men time historical turning arts country French France law art book guy crime continent stretching European slow medieval prison location century questioning confession painful prisoner criminal print literature chamber concept punishment TORTURE B&W punishing engraved engraving penitentiary 19th century torture chamber black & white black and white B W mediaeval Middle Ages 16th century 1870s nineteenth century sixteenth century history historic 1878 torturer treatise illustration engraving portrait Unknown Paul Paul Lacroix Lacroix torture device 1540s strappado 19th-century Moeurs usages et costumes au moyen-âge.. LT L Praxis Criminalis Persequendi Jean Milles de Souvigny Souvigny Jean Milles de Jean de Mille