Two representations on a plate. Above: two captured Christians are stretched on a rack by order of a Roman emperor using ropes and a spinning wheel. In the background, another Christian is being tortured on a screw machine. Below: some captured Christians are tortured to death by Roman soldiers. They are tied to spinning wheel, which then rolls over a plate of nails. In the background other torture methods such as wheel-bashing, stretching of two imprisoned Christians and the torture death of some Christians Cruel way of uytrekking on the rack / Yslyke scheuring des lighaams door 't rad thrust with spears, scorching over a slow fire and bruising with sledgehammers , print maker: Jan Luyken, (mentioned on object), publisher: Jacobus van Hardenberg, bookseller: Barent Visscher, Amsterdam, 1700, paper, etching, h 273 mm × w 158 mm