A print showing a man stripped to the waist and hung from a beam by his hands with his legs tied to a log, ready to be whipped with a knout, a heavy scourge-like multiple whip usually made of a bunch of rawhide thongs attached to a long handle. Date: circa 1765.. Dimensions: height: 24 cm (9.4 in); width: 19 cm (7.4 in).. Medium: pen and ink drawing with grey wash. Jean-Baptiste Le Prince, Supplice du grand knout (c. 1765)
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