China Album with 12 tsuso paintings depicting punishments and methods of torture. Each gouache on marbled paper, with blue silk border. Dimensions approx. 8 x 12 cm each. Landscape 12° (13 x 9.5 cm). Mounted in album of the 19th century with decorative red silk cover and closing straps (somewhat rubbed and stained, cover with small losses). Each with a small typographic label in the lower margin under the silk border with numbering and title in English. Contains the following titles: 1. Magistrate in Court. 2 Arrest of Criminals. 3. Punishment of criminal by parading him in the Street. 4. slapping the mouth for telling lies. 5. punishment by stretching the criminal on a wooden bench. 6. punishment by cangue, or wooden pillory. 7. torture by pressing the ancles of criminal with wooden poles. 8. bambooing his breeches. 9. tying him to a stone. 10. banishement. 11. ling ch'ee (i.e. cutting off the flesh of the criminal piece by piece.). 12. beheading - the Capital punishment in China. - Well preserved, bright colours. China - Album with 12 tsuso paintings depicting punishments and torture methods. Each gouache on plith paper, with blue silk border. Mounted in cont. album with decorative red silk cover and closing bands (somewhat rubbed and stained, cover with small missing parts). - Each with a small typographical label in the lower margin under the silk border with numbering and title in English. Contains: see above. - Well preserved, colours bright.