Dismemberment and other punishments; at centre, a man tied upside-down by the ankles to the branches of two different trees, the branches having been pulled down and together then released, his left leg torn off; at right beyond, men being sewn alive into the bellies of oxen; in the distance, a man tied to the wheel of a wagon ('bound fast to the top of a waggon, and carried so a whole day's march'); illustration to john beaver, 'the roman military punishments' (london, 1725), ch. 8, pp. 80. Etching. Date: 1725. Dimensions: Height: 44 mm; Width: 76 mm. Medium: paper. Depicted People: John Beaver. Collection: British Museum. Print, book-illustration (BM Cc,1.47)
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