works

Galleries and Reading Room

Library

Wellcome Café

Wellcome Kitchen

Wellcome Shop

To make your visit as safe and enjoyable as possible, you’ll need to follow our safety measures inside our venue, including wearing a face covering unless you’re exempt. Find out how we're keeping you safe. You no longer need to book a ticket to enter the museum or library.

We’re undertaking research with website visitors to find out some more about you and what you thought about your visit. This survey will take less than 10 minutes to complete. Thank you for your time!

What brought you to our website today?

1 print : engraving, with watercolour ; sheet 13 x 23 cm

The coffin of her Royal Highness Princess Amelia. Coloured engraving.

Bible. N.T. Luke 7.11-15. The dead son is being taken outside the city gates on a bier when Christ intervenes

1 print : line engraving and etching ; image 18.5 x 13.5 cm

Christ raises the widow's son from the dead. Engraving by J. Barlow.

1 print : lithograph ; image 8.5 x 7.5 cm

The funeral procession of John of Lyon. Coloured lithograph.

1 print : wood engraving ; image 15.2 x 22.7 cm

Funeral of Lord Ranelagh at Fulham Church in London in 1885. Wood engraving, ca. 1885.

A large man contemplating a child's coffin. Coloured etching.

Lying next to a treasure chest is an open book which reads: "A smokey house and a scolding wife are the plague of mans life. Oh what pleasure well about when my wife is laid in ground"

1 print : etching, with watercolour ; platemark 35.3 x 24.9 cm

A man cavorting with a young woman, while his recently deceased wife lies in a coffin in the background. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1802.

1 print : engraving, with etching ; image 14.5 x 30 cm

The funeral procession of Edward Duke of York and Albany. Engraving by James Hulett, c. 1767.

The pawnbroker's shop depicted is "S. Gripe pawnbroker", the distillery is "Kilman distillery", a gin shop sign reads "drunk for a penny dead drunk for two pence clean straw for nothing" and a drunkard's paper is headed "the downfall of Mdam. gin"
The area depicted is St. Giles, London

1 print : engraving ; platemark 39 x 32.2 cm

A poor London street strewn with hopeless drunkards and lined with gin shops and a flourishing pawnbroker. Engraving, c. 1751, after W. Hogarth.

Earl Ferrers was accused of the murder of a man formerly his servant, in January 1760. He elected to be tried by his peers, who found him guilty. He was hanged and his body was "dissected and anatomised at Surgeons Hall". It seems that his body was first displayed, with the noose used, to the public

1 print : engraving ; image 15.4 x 19.3 cm

The body of Earl Ferrers, displayed upright in his coffin at the Royal College of Surgeons. Engraving by Valois.

A funeral procession carrying the corpse of an unmarried girl layed out on a bier through a village. Coloured lithograph by Gatti and G. Dura after G. Dura, 1851.

Wellcome uses cookies.

More filters

Active filters:

The coffin of her Royal Highness Princess Amelia. Coloured engraving.

Christ raises the widow's son from the dead. Engraving by J. Barlow.

The funeral procession of John of Lyon. Coloured lithograph.

Funeral of Lord Ranelagh at Fulham Church in London in 1885. Wood engraving, ca. 1885.

A large man contemplating a child's coffin. Coloured etching.

A man cavorting with a young woman, while his recently deceased wife lies in a coffin in the background. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1802.

The funeral procession of Edward Duke of York and Albany. Engraving by James Hulett, c. 1767.

A poor London street strewn with hopeless drunkards and lined with gin shops and a flourishing pawnbroker. Engraving, c. 1751, after W. Hogarth.

The body of Earl Ferrers, displayed upright in his coffin at the Royal College of Surgeons. Engraving by Valois.

A funeral procession carrying the corpse of an unmarried girl layed out on a bier through a village. Coloured lithograph by Gatti and G. Dura after G. Dura, 1851.

Stay in the know

Wellcome collection

Finding us:

Opening times:

Today's opening times

Wellcome uses cookies.

Search the collections

More filters

Active filters:

The coffin of her Royal Highness Princess Amelia. Coloured engraving.

Christ raises the widow's son from the dead. Engraving by J. Barlow.

The funeral procession of John of Lyon. Coloured lithograph.

Funeral of Lord Ranelagh at Fulham Church in London in 1885. Wood engraving, ca. 1885.

A large man contemplating a child's coffin. Coloured etching.

A man cavorting with a young woman, while his recently deceased wife lies in a coffin in the background. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1802.

The funeral procession of Edward Duke of York and Albany. Engraving by James Hulett, c. 1767.

A poor London street strewn with hopeless drunkards and lined with gin shops and a flourishing pawnbroker. Engraving, c. 1751, after W. Hogarth.

The body of Earl Ferrers, displayed upright in his coffin at the Royal College of Surgeons. Engraving by Valois.

A funeral procession carrying the corpse of an unmarried girl layed out on a bier through a village. Coloured lithograph by Gatti and G. Dura after G. Dura, 1851.

Stay in the know

Wellcome collectionWellcome Collection

Finding us:

Opening times:

Today's opening times

Wellcome collection