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Undertakers and undertaking

Images

  • An undertaker drops in to give Christmas and New Year wishes to a sick man. Coloured lithograph, ca. 1830.
  • Four groups of figures in conversation. Coloured etching after G.M. Woodward, ca. 1800.
  • The dance of death: the undertaker and the physician. Coloured aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1816.
  • A physician by his patient's death-bed; represented with a skeletal death figure at the window and an undertaker's assistant arriving with a coffin. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1813?, after R. Newton.
  • Four groups of figures in conversation. Coloured etching after G.M. Woodward, ca. 1800.
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Catalogue

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    O sredstvakh" k" preduprezhdenīi︠u︡ pogrebenīi︠a︡ obmershikh".

    | Date: 1846
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    Paris qui souffre : la basse geôle du Grand-Châtelet et les morgues modernes / par Adolphe Guillot ; avec une préface par Ernest Daudet.

    | Date: 1888
    • Pictures

    Four groups of figures in conversation. Coloured etching after G.M. Woodward, ca. 1800.

    Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809. | Date: [1799/1800] | Reference: 493423i
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    An undertaker visiting a sick man in the hope of gaining a new client. Coloured etching after R. Newton.

    Newton, Richard, 1777-1798. | Date: [26 February 1822] | Reference: 11906i
    • Books

    Grave matters : a journey through the modern funeral industry to a natural way of burial / Mark Harris.

    Harris, Mark (Donald Mark), 1960- | Date: [2007], ©2007
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