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Morgues

Images

  • People visiting the morgue in Paris to view the cadavers. Coloured aquatint by R.B. Peake, 1816.
  • Royal Liverpool University Hospital: a pathologist cutting open a body in the mortuary. Drawing by Julia Midgley, 1998.
  • People visiting the morgue in Paris to view the cadavers. Lithograph by A. Boblet, 1833, after Cour (?).
  • The Morgue, Paris, by Notre Dame. Etching, 1829, after W. Price.
  • Royal Liverpool University Hospital: the mortuary. Drawing by Julia Midgley, 1998.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    Corrupt bodies : death and dirty dealing in a London morgue / Peter Everett and Kris Hollington.

    Everett, Peter | Date: 2019
    • Books

    Paris qui souffre : la basse geôle du Grand châtelet et les morgues modernes / par Adolphe Guillot ... Avec une préface par Ernest Daudet.

    Guillot, Adolphe, 1836-1905. | Date: 1887
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    Royal Liverpool University Hospital: a pathologist cutting open a body in the mortuary. Drawing by Julia Midgley, 1998.

    Midgley, Julia. | Date: 1998 | Reference: 46847i
    • Pictures
    • Online

    People visiting the morgue in Paris to view the cadavers. Coloured aquatint by R.B. Peake, 1816.

    Peake, Richard Brinsley, 1792-1847. | Date: May 1 1816 | Reference: 6158i
    • Books

    Paris qui souffre : la basse geôle du Grand châtelet et les morgues modernes (Éd. 1887) / Adolphe Guillot.

    Guillot, Adolphe, 1836-1905. | Date: [2013?]
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