Dying Collection

Goodbye Old Man, solder and horse WWI
"Goodbye, Old Man" A World War One soldier gives his dying horse a parting kiss. Date: circa 1916

Good-bye, Old Man. By Fortunio Matania. 1922
Illustration by Fortunio Matania showing a soldier saying a last goodbye to his faithful horse

The Great Sacrifice by James Clark, WW1
The Great Sacrifice by James Clark, originally published in the 1914 Christmas number of The Graphic. Depicting a dead soldier on a battlefield with an ethereal image of Christ on the cross shining

Goodbye, Old Man by Fortunino Matania
Colour print of the famous picture by Fortunino Matania showing a gunner saying farewell to his dying horse. The original was painted for the Blue Cross Fund to raise money for the charity during

Anna Pavlova (1881 - 1931), Russian ballet dancer as the Dying Swan in a performance of Swan Lake'. Date: 1912

Gather ye roses while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying, and this same flower that smiles today, tomorrow will be dying. 20th century

Passenger Pigeon-Extinct
PASSENGER PIGEON (Ectopistes migratorius) Probably once the most numerous bird on Earth, the Pigeon became extinct in 1914

Fantasy Spacecraft, Fantastic Adventures Scifi Magazine Covers
A Spaceship blasts away from a dying planet in this Science Fiction Magazine cover

Death of William Rufus
WIlliam II, King of England, lies dying in the New Forest, having been struck by a stray arrow fired by Walter Tyrell, Lord of Poix while out hunting Date: August 1100

Death of Richard I
Richard I, dying of his wounds during a minor engagement in France, pardons Bertrand, the archer who shot him

The death of Horatio Nelson - HMS Victory at Trafalgar
The death Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, 1st Duke of Bronte (1758-1805) belowdecks on The Victory, having been shot during the Battle of Trafalgar. 1805

Statue of a wounded fighter called the Dying Gladiator or the Dying Gaul with neck torc, from the Villa Ludovisi. Copperplate engraving by G

Fading away 1858
Well-to-do family members comforting a young woman dying in bed with the Bible beside her in the last minutes of her life. Date: 1858

Death and His Brother Sleep, Shelley. (See Major Marindins Report to the board of Trade on the Railway Collision near Eastleigh)

An exhausted cab horse - The Strand, London
London Life - An exhausted cab horse tended to on the street - The Strand, London Date: circa 1901

The Sphere Memorial Number of the Scott Antarctic Expedition
Front cover of The Sphere Memorial Number of the Scott Antarctic Expedition in which Captain Scott and his four comrades perished after being beaten to the South Pole by Norwegian, Roald Amundsen

Arciconfraternita della Misericordia di Firenze
La Venerabile Arciconfraternita della Misericordia di Firenze - a charitable Fraternity from Florence, Italy, serving to transport the sick

Canadian postcard mourning death of Edward VII
Commemorative Canadian postcard mourning the death of King Edward VII - " The Peacemaker" (1841-1910). The card features the Kings last words: " Well, it is over now

Samson dying with the Philistines. circa late 18th century

Larus marinus, great black-backed gull
Plate 241 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1834-35), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Spain. Second Republic. The Republic is Dying
" Spain. Second Republic. The Republic is Dying. Picture for the magazine " La Esquella de la torratxa". Engraving. SPAIN. Salamanca. Archivo Hist󲩣 o Nacional."

Allegorical representation of the dying Christian. Man, on his deathbed, surrounded by Jesus Christ, angels, and others. Date c1847

The original sketch of Mr. Adams, taken when dying by AJS. in the Rotunda of the Capitol at Washington. Sketch showing head of John Q

Mary of Scotland mourning over the dying Douglas at the Battle of Langside, 1568. Mary, Queen of Scots, is kneeling next to George()

The dying soldier. Date 1870 Aug. 6

Leonardo da Vinci

Statue of Napoloen I, dying, Versailles, France. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

Cleopatra bitten by the asp (a somewhat unconvincing, posed version). Date: early 20th century

The Life & Age of Woman
Stages of womans life from the cradle to the grave. Date: ca. 1857

Patriotic French postcard, Defending the Flag, WW1
A patriotic French postcard produced during the First World War, entitled Defending the Flag. Showing a French soldier receiving the flag from a dying colleague

Illustration, The Sea Mine, WW1
An illustration entitled The Sea Mine, depicting people drowned and drowning in the sea following their ship being hit and sunk by a mine during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Lubaantun archaeology - native girl in British Museum, 1926
Believed to be the first of a dying race of Maya indians who has ever visited England: Emilia Vasquez standing by an ancient Maya monolith in the British Museum

Prince John, son of George V
Prince John (1904-1919), fifth and youngest son of George V and Queen Mary. After developing epilepsy at the age of four, John was increasingly kept from the public eye

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