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The boy's pony

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Image ID

814392


Item data

Title

The boy's pony

Collection

Wallach Division Picture Collection
Punishments -- Flogging

Date / Origin

Date Issued: 1874

Library Location

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection
Shelf locator: PC PUNI-Flo

Subjects

Whipping
Punishment & torture
Punishment devices -- England -- London
Men -- England -- London
Coldbath Fields Prison (London, England)
whipping -- England -- London
Women -- England -- London

Genres

Prints

Notes

Content: Printed on border: "Sketches in the Clerkenwell House of Correction [London]." Printed text in part: "… the block, facetiously called 'the pony', upon which naughty boys are horsed for a birching. There is also a triangle for tying up older persons who are to be flogged for willful misconduct while in prison …" Written on border: "June 27, 1874."
Source Note: Illustrated London news. (London : Illustrated London News and Sketch Ltd., 1842-).

Identifiers

NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b17696953
Barcode: 33333159445242
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 13ff5b20-c562-012f-df3d-58d385a7bc34

Rights

The copyright and related rights status of this item has been reviewed by The New York Public Library, but we were unable to make a conclusive determination as to the copyright status of the item. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use.

Type Of Resource

Still Image

Date Issued

1874

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MLA format

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "The boy's pony" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1874. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/13ff5b20-c562-012f-df3d-58d385a7bc34

APA format

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. (1874). The boy's pony Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/13ff5b20-c562-012f-df3d-58d385a7bc34

Chicago/Turabian Format

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "The boy's pony" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 9, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/13ff5b20-c562-012f-df3d-58d385a7bc34

Wikipedia citation

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