Beaten With A Bundle Of Wicker

Although this looks like a fairly typical birching illustration, the phrase “brins d’osier” (in machine translation at least) usually suggests wicker. So that’s more likely to be a bundle of willow sticks than birch branches:

lashed with a handful of wicker

The lovely colored plate is from a 1914 edition of Le Précepteur by Aimé Van Rod.

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  1. Fr. commented on April 16th, 2018:

    Which punishment would be nastier?

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