Gallery›Wellcome Collection›A head, a hand and a torso of a criminal, each deposited on a cartwheel on top of a stripped tree-trunk. Engraving by R. Pollard after E.D. Clarke, 1819.
A head, a hand and a torso of a criminal, each deposited on a cartwheel on top of a stripped tree-trunk. Engraving by R. Pollard after E.D. Clarke, 1819.
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A head, a hand and a torso of a criminal, each deposited on a cartwheel on top of a stripped tree-trunk. Engraving by R. Pollard after E.D. Clarke, 1819.

E.D. Clarke · 1819

CC0 — Public Domain
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Lettering: Mode of exhibiting the bodies of criminals in Sweden. E.D. Clarke delt. R. Pollard sculpt.

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