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Concept

Death

Images

  • 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.
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Catalogue

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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
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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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