Wellcome uses cookies.

Read our policy
Wellcome Collection homepage
All
Stories
Images
Catalogue
Events
99 results
  • Death head of Antonio Scarpa
  • 'Vanitas' head: female head in wax representing life & death
  • 'Vanitas' head: female head in wax representing life & death
  • Bronze bust, winged head, probably Death or Sleep.
  • The head of a man attending at the death of Eudamidas. Stipple print by L. Ruotte after G. Roques, 1810, after N. Poussin.
  • Yama, Buddhist god of death, with the head of a buffalo bedecked with skulls and flames, stands on a bull crushing a man lying on his back. Distemper painting.
  • Yama, Buddhist god of death, with the head of a buffalo bedecked with skulls and flames, stands on a bull crushing a man lying on his back. Distemper painting.
  • Yama, Buddhist god of death, with the head of a buffalo bedecked with skulls and flames, stands on a bull crushing a man lying on his back. Distemper painting.
  • A provocative naked young woman lying on a bed, death (a cloaked skeleton) sits at her side, a naked man walks away from the bed with his head bowed, towards a throng of diseased and dying people; representing syphilis. Watercolour by R. Cooper.
  • The two-headed girl : death of the double-headed Girl : duplex child - Rita-Christina.
  • The death of Ravana, the ten headed demon king of Lanka by Lord Rama, his brother Lakshman and an army of monkeys. Gouache painting by an Indian painter.
  • Charcoal drawing: head from dissection
  • Head of an anguished man. Chalk drawing.
  • The face of a hero immediately before death. Drawing, c. 1789, after A. Schluter.
  • A bald phrenologist with a large forehead examining a skull, in a 'vanitas' pose. Mezzotint by W.O. Geller, 1833, after T.H. Illidge.
  • A phrenologist holding a skull palpates a girl's skull, while her mother looks on. Lithograph by A-N. Delaunois after A. Debacq.
  • Jean Conradin Heidegger, Bürgermeister of Zurich, on his death-bed. Drawing, c. 1789.
  • Death mask of Jean Conradin Heidegger, Bürgermeister of Zurich. Drawing, c. 1789.
  • Salome shows the head of John the Baptist to her parents at the feast. Engraving, 1652, after P.P. Rubens.
  • Effects of post mortem posture on the blood in the brains of two rabbits
  • The English physitian enlarged. With three hundred, sixty, and nine medicines made of English herbs that were not in any impression until this ... being an astrologo-physical discourse of the vulgar herbs of this nation, containing a compleat method of physick... / by Nich. Culpeper.
  • The dance of death. Oil painting.
  • The dance of death. Oil painting.
  • The dance of death. Oil painting.
  • Dissection of a dislocated shoulder joint
  • Ahilyabai Holkar with two female attendants holding a diplomatic meeting between a nobleman and subject ruler. Chromolithograph.
  • Life and death. Oil painting.
  • Effects of gravitation on the blood in the brains of two rabbits
  • A wax model of the brain made by F. La Croix after dissections by G. J. Duverney. Engraving by P.E. Moitte after J. de Sève, 1749.
  • Arthur Wellesley, first Duke of Wellington on his deathbed. Engraving by J. Skelton after a drawing by Sir T. Lawrence, 1852.