Illustrated catalogue of the historical and world-renowned collection of torture instruments, etc., from the Royal Castle of Nuremberg

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New original cover art included with this eBook is granted to the public domain.

Collection of Torture Instruments

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A grainy, vintage black-and-white photograph of a medieval European castle complex, likely the Nuremberg Castle. The structure features a large main building with a steeply pitched roof, a tall square defensive tower, a smaller pointed turret, and stone fortifications rising out of lush foliage in the foreground.

The Royal Castle of Nuremberg

A complex, detailed historical engraving serving as a book frontispiece, representing justice and punishment. In the center stands a blindfolded statue of Justitia holding a sword and scales. The surrounding courtyard is filled with legal proceedings, scribes writing at desks, prisoners on a rack, and a distant background showing public executions by hanging and burning.

See Catalogue, No. 1016.

ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE OF THE HISTORICAL AND WORLD-RENOWNED COLLECTION OF TORTURE INSTRUMENTS, Etc. FROM THE ROYAL CASTLE OF NUREMBERG AMONGST WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE CELEBRATED ORIGINAL IRON MAIDEN (EISERNE JUNGFRAU)

LENT FOR EXHIBITION BY

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE

EARL OF SHREWSBURY AND TALBOT

NOW ON VIEW AT

115 AND 117 WEST TWENTY-THIRD STREET

NEAR SIXTH AVENUE

NEW YORK

By JULIUS D. ICHENHÄUSER

Press of J. J. Little & Co.

Astor Place, New York

These torture instruments were purchased on behalf of the Earl of Shrewsbury, by Mr. J. D. Ichenhäuser, expert in works of art and curios, 68 New Bond St., London, by whom this catalogue was compiled.

The entire collection was removed from the Royal Castle of Nuremberg, in April, 1890, since which time it has been exhibited in all the principal cities of Great Britain by special permission of Lord Shrewsbury.

It is the original and only genuine collection of its kind, and what adds to the impressiveness of the exhibition is the fact that every one of the barbarous implements have been in actual use.