History of the "Maiden" Or Scottish Beheading Machine: With Notices of the Criminals Who Suffered by It (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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In a series of woodcuts showing the martyrdom of the Apostles, by Lucas Cranach, an eminent German artist, published at vvittenberg in the year 1539; and in the well-known collection Of engravings by Bonasoni, published, with verses by Achilles Bocchius at Bononia (bologna), in the year 1555; and also in a series of woodcuts, engraved by Henry Alde graver, of Westphalia, having the date 1553, there are given representa tions of executions by machines. It can scarcely be supposed that the artists would have figured such machines unless they had actually seen them, or known that they were in use. Plate LXVI. Is a copy of one Of these early representations of Cranach's.

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