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[Execution Scene, Shanghai]

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William Saunders

Photographer · 1832–1892

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Date: 1870s
Medium: Albumen silver print
Culture: English
Department: Photographs
Institution: Getty Museum

View of a man in the moment before he is beheaded, kneeling forward with his arms behind his back and his wrists bound with rope. An executioner stands over him with a machete raised above his head, and an assistant stands beside him holding a rope attached to the prisoner's waist. A crowd has gathered around them to watch.

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