Punish Collection

Shame Flute - German punishment for being a poor musician
A Shame Flute ( Schand Flote ) - German punishment for being a poor musician - you had to face the public wearing (around the neck) a heavy iron flute

Ducking a Scold - or Duckynge a Scolde. Cartoon showing the medieval practice of ducking women to punish them for a nagging tongue. Date: 1913

Loki and Sigyn
The gods seek to punish Loki the trickster with the poisonous venom of Gemheil, but his loving wife Sigyn saves his life by catching the venom in a bowl

Joust between Duke of Norfolk and Duke of Hereford
A joust between Thomas Mowbray, the Duke of Norfolk and Henry Bolingbroke, the Duke of Hereford at Gosford Green in Coventry on 16th September 1398 to settle an argument is disrupted by King Richard

Syria - Punishment of a servant (2 / 3)
A domestic situation unfolds in Syria - the Mistress of the house punishes her serving maid - she is tied up and her upper-body clothes are removed. Date: circa 1910s

British soldier in former German area, WW1
British soldier in former German area of the Western Front, WW1 - the German sign says God punish England, to which Tommy's answer is Cheerio Date: circa 1916

Vietnamese Patriotic Poster - Punish the PIrates
Vietnamese Patriotic Poster - The great seal of the United States Navy lies in ruins after a successful attack by Vietnamese forces - Punish the PIrates'. Date: circa mid-1970s

Turkey. Constantinople. The Sehzade Mosque
Ottoman Empire. Turkey. Constantinople (today Istanbul). Exterior view of the Sehzade Mosque, 16th century. Ottoman era mosque located in the Fatih district

Turkey. Constantinople. The Sehzade Mosque. Engraving
Ottoman Empire. Turkey. Constantinople (today Istanbul). Exterior view of the Sehzade Mosque, 16th century. Ottoman era mosque located in the Fatih district

Comic postcard, Man, wife and pretty woman paddling in the sea Date: 20th century

WWI / COLLABORATOR HANGED
How the Belgians punish traitors A collaborator is hanged from a tree. Date: 1916

ZEUS & THUNDERBOLTS ZEUS & THUNDERBOLTS
depicted as the hurler of thunderbolts at those he wishes to punish : his eagle waits at his side

Syria - Punishment of a servant (3 / 3)
A domestic situation unfolds in Syria - the Mistress of the house punishes her serving maid - she is tied up and flogged across her bare back. Date: circa 1910s

Syria - Punishment of a servant (1 / 3)
A domestic situation unfolds in Syria - the Mistress of the house punishes her serving maid. Date: circa 1910s

Yachting Terms Illustrated - A Spanker!"
Yachting Terms Illustrated - " A Spanker!" A housewife reacts with furious anger to the indiscretions of her younger son, who has spilt black ink all over her pressed white tablecloth

Swimming a Witch
The art of Swimming a witch. The lady floating is the witch, who by dint of her buoyancy has failed the test. At the bottom right-hand corner you can see the feet of the woman who passed the test but

A Painful Subject - silhouette by Konewka
Silhouette of a teacher brutally thrashing his pupil by the German silhouettist Konewka Date: c.1830

Three German medallions (2 of 2), WW1
Three German medallions from the First World War. At the top is a large round medallion bearing the words: Gott Strafe England (May God Punish England) 18 Februar 1915

Child spanker / W H Robinson
A neat apparatus for punishing a child without hurting its feelings! The child is suspended, backside protruding while a mechanical hand, or four to be precise

A War Dictionary
A number of new war-influenced expressions in one cartoon including the strafe (punish) and blighty (Britain), during First World War

Nymphs and Shepherd
A shepherd tries to dance like the nymphs, but does so with such clumsiness that they punish him by turning him into an olive tree

Dispute in Cortes
A dispute on the floor of the Cortes between republicans and royalists : three days later Isabela will dismiss the Cortes and punish those who oppose her

Hanuman Burns Lanka
Ravana tries to punish the monkey god Hanuman (captured seeking Sita) by setting his tail alight. But Hanuman escapes & sets fire to Ravanas city, Lanka

Kipling / Stalky & Co. / C19
The moral reformers, Beetle, Stalky & McTurk punish the two bullies by tying their hands to their feet

Zeus on his eagle with thunderbolt in hand
Zeus, riding on his eagle, holds a thunderbolt in his hand ready to punish anyone who happens to offend him

Zeus / Jupiter, Seated
Zeus, seated on his throne, holds a clutch of thunderbolts in case he needs to punish someone. His faithful eagle perches beside him, ready to gouge an evil-doers eyes

Iliad / Hecuba
The wife of Herakles, who hanged herself in remorse after sending a poisoned shirt to the husband of Iole, to punish her for making love with Herakles

Father Xmas & Boy
Santa carries a birch to punish naughty children as well as gifts to reward the good ones; he questions this boy to find whether or not he has behaved himself

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