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Children - Death

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  • Memorial of a dead child. Watercolour by S.E.B. (?), 1848.
  • An angel conducting Prince Octavius to heaven on a cloud, where Prince Alfred greets him: Windsor Castle below. Engraving by R. Strange after B. West.
  • Memorial of a dead child. Watercolour by S.E.B. (?), 1848.
  • Memorial of a dead child. Watercolour by S.E.B. (?), 1848.
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Catalogue

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    Immoderate mourning for the dead, prov'd unreasonable and unchristian. Or, Some considerations of general use to allay our sorrow for deceased friends and relations : but more especially intended for comfort to parents upon the death of their children. By John Owen, chaplain to the right honourable Henry Lord Grey of Ruthen.

    Owen, John, chaplain to Lord Grey of Ruthin | Date: 1680
    • Books

    Children in the New England mind : in death and in life / by Peter Gregg Slater.

    Slater, Peter Gregg, 1940- | Date: 1977
    • Books

    The death of a child / edited by Peter Stanford ; [afterword by Dorothy Rowe].

    | Date: 2011
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    • Online

    A handkercher for parents wet eyes : vpon the death of children. A consolatory letter to a friend.

    I. C | Date: 1630
    • Pictures

    The deaths of the firstborn of Egypt. Wood engraving by Hermann Fechenbach, ca. 1930.

    Fechenbach, Hermann, 1897-1986. | Date: [1930?] | Reference: 525620i
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