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  • Scheuchzer, 1731-33: memento mori
  • A skeleton as memento mori. Etching.
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  • A female memento mori figure used for spiritual contemplation
  • A male memento mori figure used for spiritual contemplation
  • A male memento mori figure used for spiritual contemplation
  • A female memento mori figure used for spiritual contemplation
  • A female memento mori figure used for spiritual contemplation
  • A male memento mori figure used for spiritual contemplation
  • Memento Mori - Closed casket
  • Memento Mori - ivory Skeleton
  • Memento Mori - ivory Skeleton
  • Memento Mori - ivory Skeleton
  • A memento mori statue, used to remind the user of the transience of life and material luxury, containing a decaying corpse inside a coffin.
  • A gold memento mori pendant, used to remind the user of the transience of life and material luxury, containing a decaying corpse inside a coffin. (Closed)
  • A gold memento mori pendant, used to remind the user of the transience of life and material luxury, containing a decaying corpse inside a coffin. (Open)
  • A gold memento mori pendant, used to remind the user of the transience of life and material luxury, containing a decaying corpse inside a coffin. (Open)
  • A gold memento mori pendant, used to remind the user of the transience of life and material luxury, containing a decaying corpse inside a coffin. (Closed)
  • A memento mori, used to remind the user of the transience of life and material luxury, containing a decaying corpse inside a coffin. (Image shows coffin only)
  • W. Calder Marshall's statue of Edward Jenner in Trafalgar Square, with verses and vignettes on the theme of memento mori (a skull, an angel and a tombstone). Ink drawing by S. Jenner, 1830/1850.