Picture No | 10221411 |
Date | 1883 |
Description | Torture Instruments at the Tower of London 1883 |
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Torture instruments, displayed in the museum of the Tower of London. The items shown are (left to right) a model of a rack, a thumbscrew, bilboes, sinking chains, a scavenger's daughter, an iron collar, the block, axe and executioner's mask and a poleaxe.
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Source | The Illustrated London News. 29 December 1883, page 648 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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