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Images about Death

1,276 images from works
  • Four scenes with a skeleton: the skeleton directing an astronomer-alchemist, poisoning the drink of lovers, contemplating a flagellant, and taking away a man. Drawings attributed to H.K. Browne [Phiz].
  • Captain Ducie approaches the dead body of M. Platzoff. Process print after R. Taylor after M. L. Gow.
  • Mercury, an agent of the Terror, carries Capucin Chabot naked towards a furnace; recording the turnover of human life during the Terror in the French Revolution. Coloured aquatint, ca. 1794.
  • Death and the lady. Etching.
  • The death of Major Peirson in the battle of Jersey. Engraving by A. Kessler after J.S. Copley.
  • A man, half human and half skeleton. Coloured etching after R. Dighton, 17--.
  • Cemetery of the Innocents in Paris. Wood engraving by F.L. Méaulle, .
  • A clock dial on which a skeleton holds an oil lamp. Drawing by Caleb Elwin, 1800.
  • A young woman faints on hearing the news of the death of General Wallenstein (?). Line engraving with etching by Peter Carl Geissler.
  • The coffin containing the remains of Mr. Peabody on display in the chapel on board of the ship "The Monarch". Wood engraving, 1869.
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Works from the collections

2,037 works

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    A sermon preached at the funeral of ... Mr. Georg Ritschel, late minister of Hexham in Northumberland / by Mr. Major Algood ... ; with an elegie on his death.

    Algood, Major, 1641-1696 | Date: 1684
    • Pictures
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    The coffin of Princess Amelia. Coloured engraving.

    | Date: 1810 | Reference: 44482i
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    The dying Sir Wycherly Wychecombe dictates his will. Engraving by J. Cook after J. Cawse, 1844.

    Cawse, John, 1779-1862. | Date: 1844 | Reference: 37672i
    • Ephemera

    On hearing the bells chime for a funeral, very late at night / W.L.

    | Date: [1760?]
    • Books

    Death and existence : a conceptual history of human mortality / James P. Carse.

    Carse, James P. | Date: [1980], ©1980
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Related topics

Christianity
Funeral rites and ceremonies
Attitude to Death
Grief
Burial
Women in Christianity
Tombs
Mary
Plague
Immobility Response, Tonic

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