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Death, symbolism: three skeletons with roundel of corpses,
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Death, symbolism: three skeletons with roundel of corpses,
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On death and death symbolism : the Hiroshima disaster / Robert Jay Lifton.
Lifton, Robert Jay, 1926-Date: 1964- Books
Death, women, and the sun : symbolism of regeneration in early Aegean religion / Lucy Goodison.
Goodison, Lucy.Date: 1989- Books
Navaho religion : a study of symbolism / Gladys A. Reichard.
Reichard, Gladys Amanda, 1893-1955.Date: 1970, ©1963- Books
Zandloper, zeis en Pierlala : symbolen van de dood in volkskunst en cultuur / G.T. Haneveld.
Haneveld, G. T.Date: 1995- Archives and manuscripts
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M0007307: Illustration depicting medical iconography
Date: 6 September 1940Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/62/82Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Pictures
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A cartouche including symbols of death and a funerary procession. Woodcut.
Reference: 35807i- Pictures
A monument teaching mortality, including figures and symbols alluding to death. Etching by or after G. Fortuna.
Fortuna, Giovanni, 1535-1611.Reference: 33803i- Pictures
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A monument teaching mortality, including figures and symbols alluding to death. Woodcut by A. Andreani after G. Fortuna, ca. 1588.
Fortuna, Giovanni, 1535-1611.Date: MDLXXXVIII [1588]Reference: 33798i- Pictures
Two scenes: a witch being tried in the "sink or float" method; five figures asleep. Woodcut, 1720.
Date: 1720Reference: 33334i- Books
Images of man and death / Philippe Ariès ; translated by Janet Lloyd.
Ariès, Philippe.Date: 1985- Pictures
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A human body is consumed by a furnace; a woman holds a small red limbless effigy bearing a crown; a man holds a sheaf, and another a stick; below, by another furnace, a green and red dragon face each other, poised for combat; representing a stage in the process of alchemy. Coloured etching, ca. 18th century.
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Untitled.
Shrigley, DavidDate: [2020]Reference: 3272402iPart of: Wellcome Collection On Happiness Commision.- Pictures
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A skull, a skeleton, candles and other symbols of mortality. Engraving attributed to G. Altzenbach, [16--].
Altzenbach, Gerhard, active 1609-1672.Date: [between 1600 and 1699]Reference: 5i- Books
A view to a death in the morning : hunting and nature through history / Matt Cartmill.
Cartmill, Matt.Date: 1993- Pictures
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Taraka standing on a dead body. Coloured lithograph.
Reference: 26229i- Pictures
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A skeleton as a fashionably dressed woman. Engraving attributed to Gerhard Altzenbach, 16--.
Altzenbach, Gerhard, active 1609-1672.Date: [between 1600 and 1699]Reference: 803817i- Pictures
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Boer War: removing the dead. Process print by S? Eng. Co.
Reference: 22283i- Pictures
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Symbols of death and mourning to mark World AIDS Day 1997. Colour lithograph, 1997.
Date: 1997Reference: 667619i- Pictures
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Four scenes all involving water: trial by water, people using divination rods, and different types of rods. Engraving.
Reference: 33977i- Pictures
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Boer War: train platform showing the arrival of wounded Boer soldiers, Pretoria. Process print.
Reference: 22154i- Pictures
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Sunshine (left): a woman with a jug; darkness (right): a witch with time and death. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1971.
Bishop, Mary, (Mary Cecil Hamilton), 1914-1990.Date: 12.1.71 [12 January 1971]Reference: 2897405iPart of: Adamson Collection- Digital Images
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Yama, the Lord of Death, holding the Wheel of Life which represents Samsara, or the world on a Tibetan Thangka. In the central circle is a snake chasing a pig chasing a rooster chasing the snake which represents craving, hatred and ignorance. The six sections, surrounding the central circle, show representations of the six realms - the realm of the gods, the realm of the titans, the realm of the humans, the realm of the animals, the realm of the hungry ghosts and the realm of the demons.
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A pink triangle against a black backdrop with the words 'Silence=Death' representing an advertisement for the Silence=Death Project used by permission by ACT-UP, The AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power. Colour lithograph, 1987.
Silence = Death Project.Date: 1987Reference: 669136i