- Bib ID:
- 6005086
- Format:
- Picture
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Description:
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- [China?] : [publisher not identified], [between 1850 and 1860?]
- 12 paintings (1 album) : watercolour ; 20 x 31 cm
- Series:
- Pith painting and trade art collections.
- Summary:
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19th century China trade album containing a set of twelve paintings depicting a court of justice and various forms of judicial tortures to extract a confession including the finger press, suspension and face slapping and also punishments from wearing a yoke to beheading.
- Full contents:
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- [1]. Liu fang = Exile
- [2]. Gong tang shen wen = Courtroom interrogation
- [3]. Chou jiao jin = Tendon extraction
- [4]. Liao kao qiu fan = Chained prisoners.
- [5]. Zhi gu qiu fan = Prisoners with shackles
- [6]. Jia suo = Yoke
- [7]. Zan xing = Finger press
- [8]. Zhang lian = Slapping face
- [9]. Diao xing = Suspension
- [10]. Gun xing = Interrogation by beating
- [11]. Kai guan yan shi = Inspection of the corpse
- [12]. Zhan shou = Beheading.
- [1]. 流放 = Exile
- [2]. 公堂審問 = Courtroom interrogation
- [3]. 抽腳筋 = Tendon extraction
- [4]. 鐐銬囚犯 = Chained prisoners.
- [5]. 桎梏囚犯 = Prisoners with shackles
- [6]. 枷鎖 = Yoke
- [7]. 拶刑 = Finger press
- [8]. 掌臉 = Slapping face
- [9]. 吊刑 = Suspension
- [10]. 棍刑 = Interrogation by beating
- [11]. 開棺驗尸 = Inspection of the corpse
- [12]. 斬首 = Beheading.
- Notes:
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- Original painting on pith paper.
- Title devised by cataloguer based on the images.
- Watercolour on pith paper backed on plain mianlin paper.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-112780519
- Subject:
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- Also Titled:
- Crime and punishment under the Qing dynasty
- Related Records:
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