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Bereavement

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Death
Loss (Psychology)

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Images from the collections

Images about Bereavement

18 images from works
  • The body of Tippu Sultan is laid out and mourned by a woman and servants. Stipple engraving by L. Schiavonetti, 1801, after R.K. Porter.
  • When your pet dies : some tips to help you to cope / RSPCA.
  • A father has died and is mourned by his wife and children, as his eldest son returns from the wars, distraught by his arrival too late to see his father alive. Engraving by R. Gaillard, 1781, after J.B. Greuze.
  • Death's triumph over a much loved family man; illustrated by a skeletal death figure pulling the hair of the retreating doctor. Coloured aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1814, after himself.
  • When your pet dies : some tips to help you to cope / RSPCA.
  • A father has died and is mourned by his wife and children, as his eldest son returns from the wars, distraught by his arrival too late to see his father alive. Engraving by R. Gaillard, 1781, after J.B. Greuze.
  • A bereaved mother mourning her dead daughter in a graveyard, stricken with remorse for having treated her harshly in her lifetime. Engraving by R.L. Wright.
  • Colonel Kirke draws the attention of a distressed young lady to the body of her brother whom he had hanged in an adjoining room. Engraving by F. Deeves after W. Hamilton.
  • Two hooded figures and a king grieve over a dead person while a masked woman enters the room with a bowl and a stick. Woodcut attributed to C. van Sichem the elder.
  • A woman dying in the arms of her family, an unhappy doctor leaves the room realising that it is his final payment. Aquatint by T. Rowlandson, 1786.

Works from the collections

73 works

    • Audio

    The last goodbye.

    | Date: 2003
    • Books

    1in4zines. No. 3, Grief trigger (the exception) / lucysullivanuk.com.

    Sullivan, Lucy | Date: 2018
    • Books

    Memento Mori! : zur Kulturgeschichte des Todes in Franken : Ausstellung im Stadtmuseum Erlangen 2. September 1990-6. Januar 1991 / [Katalog, Bernward Deneke and others].

    | Date: [1990], ©1990
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Mirek Craney / by Deborah Kelly and collaborators

    Kelly, Deborah, 1962- | Date: 2014 | Reference: 3198515i
    Part of: No human being is illegal (in all our glory), 2014-2019
    • Books

    Coping with bereavement / Hamish McIlwraith.

    McIlwraith, Hamish | Date: [1998]

Related topics

Bereavement
Grief
Grief
Death
Mental Health
Loss (Psychology)
Consolation
Attitude to Death

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