Find thousands of books, manuscripts, visual materials and unpublished archives from our collections, many of them with free online access.
Search for free, downloadable images taken from our library and museum collections, including paintings, illustrations, photos and more.
The typhus louse shaking hands with Death. Colour lithograph by O. Grin, 1919.
- Grin, O., active 1919.
- Date:
- [1919]
- Reference:
- 536675i
- Pictures
Selected images from this work
View 2 imagesAbout this work
Description
Death is shown as a skeleton carrying a scythe, with an hourglass at his feet
Publication/Creation
Moskva [Moscow] : T-VO...[name indistinct], [1919]
Physical description
1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; image and border 108 x 73.2 cm
Contributors
Lettering
Vosh' i smert' druz'i︠a︡ Pri︠︡iateli unichtozhaĭte vsheĭ raznosi︠a︡shchikh zarazu! O. Grin 1919.
References note
Naomi Baumslag, Murderous medicine: Nazi doctors, human experimentation, and typhus, Westport, Conn., 2005, p. 9 (reproduced)
Reference
Wellcome Collection 536675i
Type/Technique
Languages
- Russian
Subjects
Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed stores