A torture chamber of the Spanish Inquisition with suspected heretics having their feet burned or being suspended with a rope from a pulley while scribes note down confessions. Engraving by B. Picart, 1722.

  • Picart, Bernard, 1673-1733.
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1722
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43213i
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A torture chamber of the Spanish Inquisition with suspected heretics having their feet burned or being suspended with a rope from a pulley while scribes note down confessions. Engraving by B. Picart, 1722. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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The Spanish Inquisition was a council to combat heresy, authorized by a papal bull in 1478 and established by King Ferdinand II and Queen Isabella in 1480 as responsible to the Crown, not the Church. It used secret procedures and judicial torture, and burning its victims in public ceremonials. With its independence from papal interference, the Inquisition soon became an instrument of the Spanish Crown's build-up of absolute power in the 16th and 17th century. It was finally abolished in 1834

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[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1722.

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1 print : engraving, with etching ; image 15 x 20.5 cm

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Diverses manieres dont le St. Ofice fait donner la question. B. Picart sculp. dir. 1722

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On the same sheet as no. 43212 (this catalogue)

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Wellcome Collection 43213i

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