Punished Collection

The Thief - painting by Antonio Maria Fabres y Costa
Postcard image after a painting by Antonio Maria Fabres y Costa La Ladrona (" The Thief" ) in the los Tiros art gallery in Granada, Spain

Dante & Virgil on Ice
Virgil is Dantes guide on a tour of Inferno; they come across some evildoers punished by being placed up to their necks in ice

Clan Macdonald
Clan MACDONALD OF THE ISLES clad in a coat of chain-mail, the chieftain with an angry look gives orders for some miscreant to be punished

Vestal Virgin Punished
Oppia, one of Romes Vestal Virgins, is buried alive for no longer being one

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

HELL
Those who were guilty of avarice during their lifetimes are punished by being boiled in cauldrons of burning oil and molten lead

Gambling / Dice / USA / 1863
American Civil War soldiers are punished for gambling by being compelled to gamble

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

DANTE IN HELL
Virgil is Dantes guide on a tour of Inferno; they come across some evildoers punished by being placed up to their necks in ice

GOLDMARK/SABA LIEBIG 4
Act 3 scene 4 : the queen of Sheba, though concealing her love for Assad, asks Solomon to release him from prison, but he refuses saying that Assad must be punished. Date: first performed 1875

EVIL-DOERS PUNISHED
A man who took the name of God in vain, and another who violated the Sabbath by plucking a few straws in the fields, are stoned to death - such is God's Law !

ARISTAEUS & EURYDICE
Aristaeus takes a fancy to Eurydice : fleeing his unwelcome attentions, she treads on a snake which bites her fatally : she dies, and Aristaeus is punished Date:

BASKET SACRIFICE, DAHOMEY
In the Basket Sacrifice of Dahomey, captives from other tribes are tied in a basket and thrown down from a tower to the eager crowd below... Date: circa 1860

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

The punishment of Adoni-Bezek, a Canaanite king who, having subdued seventy of the chiefs that were around him, was attacked by the armies of Judah and Simeon and suffered the same fate

Jakarta, Indonesia - A public Flogging. The unlucky recipent of this punishment (a chained prisoner) has been tied to a tall frame

Irish Witch
In England, spirit mediums live off the fat of the land, while in Ireland, so-called witches are punished Date: 1865

The Stocks at Havering-atte-Bower, Romford, London, England Date: circa 1904

Young boy punished - Russia - Elizabeth Bem
Punished for Lying A young Russian boy with a mischievous glint in his eye thinks up some more daring do whilst writing out some lines as punishment for crying wolf.... Date: 1915

Flogging of a Persian criminal Date: circa 1910s

Female convict in cell, Millbank Prison
A female convict in a cell at Millbank Prison, London. She is wearing a canvas dress and is being punished for tearing her normal clothes. Date: 1862

Highwaymen punished
A new plan is proposed fo the punishment of highwaymen by hard labour on the roads. Date: 18th Century

Atlas Carrying World
Atlas, a Titan who was punished for rebelling against the Gods by being made to carry the heavens on his shoulders; later he was turned to stone, becoming the Atlas Mountains

Sodomites Go Blind
The people of Sodom are punished for their wicked ways by being struck blind

Vesalius Punished
ANDREAS VESALIUS accused by the inquisition of dissecting a living man, he is condemned to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Date: 1514 - 1564

Annoying teenager booted out of the front door for his own good after one minor indiscretion too many....!! Date: 1909

The Fables of Bidpai. Fol. 4: The punished thief

GREUZE, Jean Baptiste (1725-1805). The Punished Son (Le Fils Puni ). Rococo art. Oil on canvas

England / Lingfield
The village lock-up, beside the road and adjoining the pond, Lingfield, Surrey, England. Here delinquents and the like were punished. Originally a wayside shrine. Date: 1930s

Heads of captured Greek bandits
A gruesome engraving showing the severed heads of seven Greek captured bandits nailed to a wall. 1870s

Mime Punished
Scene Three : Mime is punished by Alberich

Guy Fawkes reprimands trespasser
A life-like effigy of the famous Gunpowder Plot conspirator reprimands a schoolboy who has trespassed, having climbed a ladder over a fence to take fruit from the store shed

Norman Rioters
Normans involved in Paris riots are punished in the pillory, which will not be destroyed until the Revolution

Thumbs & Toes Cut Off
Adoni-Bezek, king of Jeru- salem, is defeated, captured, and punished by having his thumbs and big toes cut off : but spare your tears, thats just what he did to others

Gluttony Punished
Covetous men and women are pushed into cauldrons full of boiling lead and oil - illustration to Julian Notarys edition of the Shepherds Calendar

Lechery Punished
Lechers are tormented by devils - illustration to Julian Notarys edition of the Shepherds Calendar

Judas Punished
Theres a limit to how forgiving God can be, and Judas is condemned to perch on this rock throughout eternity, meditating on his wickedness

Christmas Dancers
Dancers on Christmas Night are punished for their impiety, and condemned to dance for a whole year - a legend of the 15th century

Dainaides Punished
The Danaides, all but one of whom murdered their husbands on their wedding night, are condemned to spend eternity in hell fetching water in vessels with holes in them

Joshua Takes Ai
Joshua at first fails to take the city of Ai due to Achans sin, but when he has been punished, the Israelites are victorious

Skimmington Custom
At the Skimmington, or Stang, nagging wives are punished by being carried round in procession for all to mock

Abimelech Afflicted
Because he has - albeit unwittingly - lain with Sarah, Abrahams wife (he said she was his sister) Abimelech is punished with infertility by God

Vizir who was Punished
Fish, fish, are you doing your duty ? - the mysterious damsel upsets the frying-pan in which the magic fish are about to be fried for the Sultans supper

GREEDY CAT
A cat is about to be punished for helping himself to milk at the dairy

Prometheus & Fire
Against the wishes of Zeus - hence the lightning flashes ! - Prometheus brings fire to mankind, as well as the arts. For this he is punished, but mankind keeps the fire

Buddhas Foes Punished
SIDDHARTHA GAUTAMA, known as the BUDDHA ( Enlightened One ) - his family enemies are punished by friendly heavenly powers, albeit in a rather unforgiving manner

Pyne - Peer of the Realm
A PEER OF THE REALM Besides his personal attrib- -utes he has many privileges, including freedom from arrest for many crimes for which you or I would be punished

Heliodorus Flagellated
HELIODORUS Syrian courtier, ordered by Seeleucus Philopator to loot the Jewish temple at Jerusalem, is punished by angels who flog him severely

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