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Methods of torture in Africa: a man is forced to catch a very hot iron ring with his bare hands above a cauldron over a fire Wall Art
ART BY: Harden Sidney Melville
Methods of torture in Africa: a man is forced to catch a very hot iron ring with his bare hands above a cauldron over a fire Wall Art
ART BY: Harden Sidney Melville
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Methods of torture in Africa: a man is forced to catch a very hot iron ring with his bare hands above a cauldron over a fire is a wood engravings by Harden Sidney Melville (1824–1894). The artist is catalogued as English. This reproduction is based on the copy in the Wellcome Collection, and the file offered here measures 6000 × 5680 px (7.4 MB). Catalogued under Prints and Romanticism, in landscape format. Archive Lane holds 11 works by Harden Sidney Melville, a British artist.
Harden Sidney Melville (1824–1894) was an English painter, illustrator and draughtsman. He received a medal from the Society of Arts and had three paintings hung in the Royal Academy’s show between 1837 and 1841.
Biography adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). All works by Harden Sidney Melville →
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