Roman punishment posters & prints

Shameful Discharge, after 1725 William Hogarth

Fustigatio, after 1725 William Hogarth

Decimation, after 1725 William Hogarth

Breaking the Legs, after 1725 William Hogarth

Taking Away the Military Belt or Girdl William Hogarth

Crucifixion, etc., after 1725 William Hogarth

Consul Titus Manlius Torquatus Orders the Beheading of his Son, 1661-64 Ferdinand Bol

Issued Barley Instead of Wheat [first version William Hogarth

Chinese Punishment Anonymous

Figures impaled on a pole in Egypt as a punishment Charles Angot

Punishment of Natalia Fyodorovna Lopukhina with an ordinary knout Jean-Baptiste Le Prince

The Punishment, 1850 Francis William Edmonds

The Wedging of the Cross James Jacques Joseph Tissot

Sent Out for Punishment Spare the Rod Spoil the Child Anonymous

One of China's terrible methods of death punishment Underwood & Underwood

Leading Light of Christianity, Nero's Torches, 1882 Henryk Siemieradzki

The Punishment of Loki Anonymous

Punishment with a Great Knout Anonymous

Punishment with a Great Knout Jean-Baptiste Le Prince

A Prison of Shame, Perhaps a Penal Settlement, Stared Him in the Face. Anonymous

The Damned Romanian School

Detail of The Damned in Hell Luca Signorelli

Apollo and Diana Punishing Niobe by Killing her Children, 1591 Abraham Bloemaert

The Punishment of Marsyas, c1573. Paolo Farinati

A page from a Punishment series: Punishment for murder, c. 1760 Unknown

Punishments of Convicts - Torture and Death by the Shower-Bath at Sing Sing Anonymous

Scenes from the Life of St. Barbara Lorenzo Lotto

The Duchess of Gloucester does penance James William Edmund Doyle

The Punishment of Niobe Tobias Verhaecht

Whom to Punish? John Morgan

The Guilty William Henry Pyne

The Emperor Severus Rebuking his Son, Caracalla, for Wanting to Assassinate Him, 1769 Jean Baptiste Greuze

The Last Judgement Taddeo di Bartolo

The Punishment of Russian Robbers on the River Volga, 1778 Anonymous

Prometheus Bound, 1889 Briton Riviere

The Punishment of the Unfaithful Hand Maidens of Penelope Anonymous