Gallery›Wellcome Collection›A man is tortured on an intricate contraption which combines a rack, a pulley and weights and lifted up by it before the inquisitor and his scribe. Wood engraving by F. Sére after H. Soltau.
A man is tortured on an intricate contraption which combines a rack, a pulley and weights and lifted up by it before the inquisitor and his scribe. Wood engraving by F. Sére after H. Soltau.
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A man is tortured on an intricate contraption which combines a rack, a pulley and weights and lifted up by it before the inquisitor and his scribe. Wood engraving by F. Sére after H. Soltau.

Hermann Wilhelm Soltau

CC0 — Public Domain
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Lettering: Le moyen age et la renaissance. Prisons, executions, tortures, pl.1. H. Soltau del. F. Sére direxit

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