Method of preserving human remains by treating them to forestall decomposition

The dead body of Tee, one of the chiefs of the island of Tahiti, in a state of preservation. Engraving by W. Byrne, 1784, after J. Webber.

The resurrected Christ appears before terrified soldiers. Etching by B. Bartoccini after F. Overbeck, 1848.

Egyptian mummies / by G. Elliot Smith and Warren R. Dawson ; with woodcuts by A. Horace Gerrard and K. Leigh-Pemberton and other illustrations.

The charitable physitian. With the charitable apothecary / Written in French by Philbert Guibert ... and by him after many severall editions, reviewed, corrected, amended, and augumented. And now faithfully translated into English ... by I.W.

Lamentation over the dead Christ on the mount of Golgotha. Woodcut by J.B. Jackson, 1738, after Rembrandt.

[Leaflet advertising an exhibition of the mummified corpse of Julia Pastrana at the Burlington Gallery, 191 Piccadilly, London (1862?)].

Lamentation over the dead Christ. Engraving after P. de Champaigne.

Miss Julia Pastrana, the embalmed nondescript : exhibiting at 191, Piccadilly.

A history of Egyptian mummies, and an account of the worship and embalming of the sacred animals by the Egyptians; with remarks on the funeral ceremonies of different nations, and observations on the mummies of the Canary Islands, of the ancient Peruvians, Burman priests, etc / By Thomas Joseph Pettigrew.

1 print : chiaroscuro woodcut ; image 34.8 x 27.4 cm

Histoire des embaumements et de la préparation des pièces d'anatomie normale, d'anatomie pathologique et d'histoire naturelle, suivie de procédés nouveaux / Par J.-N. Gannal.

The three holy women take spices to the tomb of Christ; an angel is waiting there. Etching by J.B. Patas after J.B. Wicar after P. da Cortona.

Anthropotomie, ou l'art d'injecter, de disséquer, d'embaumer et de conserver les parties du corps humain. &c / par M. Sue.

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Embalming

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Lamentation over the dead Christ on the mount of Golgotha. Woodcut by J.B. Jackson, 1738, after Rembrandt.

[Leaflet advertising an exhibition of the mummified corpse of Julia Pastrana at the Burlington Gallery, 191 Piccadilly, London (1862?)].

Histoire des embaumements et de la préparation des pièces d'anatomie normale, d'anatomie pathologique et d'histoire naturelle, suivie de procédés nouveaux / Par J.-N. Gannal.

The three holy women take spices to the tomb of Christ; an angel is waiting there. Etching by J.B. Patas after J.B. Wicar after P. da Cortona.

Anthropotomie, ou l'art d'injecter, de disséquer, d'embaumer et de conserver les parties du corps humain. &c / par M. Sue.

Embalming

Images from the collections

Images about Embalming

Works from the collections

Lamentation over the dead Christ on the mount of Golgotha. Woodcut by J.B. Jackson, 1738, after Rembrandt.

[Leaflet advertising an exhibition of the mummified corpse of Julia Pastrana at the Burlington Gallery, 191 Piccadilly, London (1862?)].

Histoire des embaumements et de la préparation des pièces d'anatomie normale, d'anatomie pathologique et d'histoire naturelle, suivie de procédés nouveaux / Par J.-N. Gannal.

The three holy women take spices to the tomb of Christ; an angel is waiting there. Etching by J.B. Patas after J.B. Wicar after P. da Cortona.

Anthropotomie, ou l'art d'injecter, de disséquer, d'embaumer et de conserver les parties du corps humain. &c / par M. Sue.

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