Gallery›Wellcome Collection›Left, an "iron maiden" with its doors secured; middle, a blindfolded prisoner is forced to kneel down before the "iron maiden" in a dungeon; right, an "iron maiden" with its doors open. Etching.
Left, an "iron maiden" with its doors secured; middle, a blindfolded prisoner is forced to kneel down before the "iron maiden" in a dungeon; right, an "iron maiden" with its doors open. Etching.
Wellcome Collection

Left, an "iron maiden" with its doors secured; middle, a blindfolded prisoner is forced to kneel down before the "iron maiden" in a dungeon; right, an "iron maiden" with its doors open. Etching.

Unknown artist

CC0 — Public Domain
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Lettering: Eiserne Jungfrau geschlossen. Das heimliche Gericht mit der Eisernen Jungfrau zu Nürnberg 1533. Eiserne Jungfrau geöffnet

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