La double chaîne, Jules Achille Noël, 1844

Convicts of the brest penal colony, the double chain (this drawing shows the double chain that attaches a punished prisoner to his bench; it also shows the "tollard", the convicts' plank bed; in each room sleep about 500 babnards). Object Type: drawing. Date: 1844. Collection: Brest’s Museum of Fine Arts. 571 Brest musée beaux-arts Jules Noël La double chaîne