A Chinese interpreter kneeling with a stick behind his knees is being tortured by two men standing on the stick. Coloured engraving by A. Freschi, 1812.

[London] (41 Pall Mall) : I.I. Stockdale, 30 May 1812.

1 print : engraving, with watercolour ; image 6.8 x 10 cm

Punishment of the false interpreter ; A. Freschi sculpsit.

Wellcome Collection 579745i

After plate to: [George Henry Mason], The punishments of China, illustrated by twenty-two engravings; with explanations in English and French, London: W. Miller, 1801, no. 8. "Punishing an interpreter" ("A punishment, decreed against interpreters, detected of wilful misinterpretation")