Morbid Collection

Sarah Bernhardt, French actress, in her coffin - she kept a satin-lined coffin in her bedroom, and occasionally slept in it, and posed in it for photographs. Date: 1907

Eddie Merton, superstitious stuntman, who always slept in a coffin on the night before a dangerous stunt. Seen here sitting up in the coffin in his hotel bedroom for his morning cup of tea. Date: 1971

Posada, Calavera of the Female Dandy, Mexico
Calavera of the Female Dandy, Mexico. circa 1910s

Calavera Mexico 1900s Death Skull Bones Mexican
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Mexico 1860s Mexican Comic Humour Death Macabre
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Calavera of Don Juan Tenorio -- a version of the legend of Don Juan. The stone statue on the right refers to the statue which comes to life and drags Don Juan to hell. Date: circa 1900s

Calavera of the Purring Cat, Mexico. Date: circa 1900s

Mexico 1900s 1890s Mexican Comic Humour Death
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Calavera of the Newspapers, Mexico -- skeletons on bicycles. Date: circa 1900s

Calavera of the Dandy, Mexico
Calavera (skull or death's head) of the Dandy, Mexico. circa 1910s

Bryan Entracte 24 1884 1880s Victorian Morbid
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1962 1960s 60s Sixties Morbid Death Burial Model
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Model posing in a graveyard. circa 1962

Late Victorian 1890s Card Cards Greetings Design
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Ww1 Wwi World War One First 1st Great I Propaganda
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VISITING FRENCH MORGUE
An assortment of visitors to a French morgue: a soldier in uniform and a mother and her son. A caretaker leans against the barrier smoking, unaffected by the corpses. Date: 1816

Dance of Death, Great Plague of London
A Dance of Death depiction at St Paul's Cathedral, during the Great Plague of London. Date: 1665

Mummies of Santa Fe de Guanajuato, Central Mexico
Mummies in the catacombs of the silver mining city of Santa Fe de Guanajuato, Central Mexico. They died in a cholera outbreak in 1833. Date: circa early 1930s

Winter sun highlights a skull & crossbones on a tomb
The low winter sun highlights a skull & crossbones on a tomb beneath cemetery gates. Kirkcudbright graveyard, Kirkcudbrightshire, Dumfries and Galloway, SW Scotland Date: 2009

Satirical cartoon on German army recruitment, WW1
A satirical cartoon by the German artist George Grosz on German army recruitment, showing a doctor examining a decaying skeleton to see if it is fit for military service

Matthew Baillie
MATTHEW BAILLIE Scottish medical researcher, known especially for his pioneering work in morbid anatomy. Date: 1761 - 1823

Matthew Baillie (Head)
MATTHEW BAILLIE Scottish medical researcher, known especially for his pioneering work in morbid anatomy. Date: 1761 - 1823

Cartoon, The gift from France, WW1
Cartoon, The gift from France, showing a German lady receiving a simply adorable gift from her soldier, a severed hand on a necklace. Date: 1915

Lear / Nonsense / Vesuvius
There was an Old Man of Vesuvius, who studied the works of Vitruvius; When the flames burnt his book, to drinking he took, that morbid Old Man of Vesuvius

Dante / Tomb / Ravenna / Ils
DANTE ALIGHIERI Italian poets remains discovered at Ravenna

Byron at Harrow
As a schoolboy at Harrow, his favourite haunt was the churchyard, where he liked to lie on this tomb in a picturesque and romantic manner

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