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Mortality Collection

Background imageMortality Collection: Hippocrates / Chapman / Col

Hippocrates / Chapman / Col
HIPPOCRATES Greek medical

Background imageMortality Collection: Funerary monument, shaped as a stone altar, of

Funerary monument, shaped as a stone altar, of Tatianos, son of Euenos and Antiocheis. 2nd-3rd centuries AD

Background imageMortality Collection: Advice for parents, early 1900s

Advice for parents, early 1900s Date: early 1900s

Background imageMortality Collection: Advice for parents, early 1900s

Advice for parents, early 1900s Date: early 1900s

Background imageMortality Collection: Advice for parents, early 1900s

Advice for parents, early 1900s Date: early 1900s

Background imageMortality Collection: Advice for parents, early 1900s

Advice for parents, early 1900s Date: early 1900s

Background imageMortality Collection: Advice for parents, early 1900s

Advice for parents, early 1900s Date: early 1900s

Background imageMortality Collection: Advice for parents, early 1900s

Advice for parents, early 1900s Date: early 1900s

Background imageMortality Collection: The skeleton of Death in a dress embraces a libertine, 18th cent

The skeleton of Death in a dress embraces a libertine, 18th cent
The skeleton of Death, Freund Hans, in dress and bouffant hairstyle embraces a libertine gentleman, 18th century. Death and the philanderer. Bartered Expectations. Getauschte Erwartung

Background imageMortality Collection: The skeleton of Death visits a boys school, 18th century

The skeleton of Death visits a boys school, 18th century
The skeleton of Death, Freund Hans, visits a boys school, 18th century. The teacher looks up with fear, while pupils flee and hide under desks

Background imageMortality Collection: Death of a balloonist in a Montgolfiere-style balloon

Death of a balloonist in a Montgolfiere-style balloon. The pilot falls from an exploding balloon above a large crowd, 18th century. The balloonist. Der Aerostat

Background imageMortality Collection: The skeleton of Death visits a woman in her boudoir

The skeleton of Death visits a woman in her boudoir
The skeleton of Death, Freund Hans, and his skeletal dog visit a woman dressing in her boudoir. 18th century woman doing her hair and makeup in front of a mirror in her bedroom. Vanity

Background imageMortality Collection: Men and women look at a Memento Mori, 18th century

Men and women look at a Memento Mori, 18th century
Men and women look at a Memento Mori, the Grim Reaper or a skeleton with scythe, 18th century. The figures include a soldier in uniform, priest with hat, gentlewoman with fan, etc

Background imageMortality Collection: The skeleton of Death with the author and artist, 18th century

The skeleton of Death with the author and artist, 18th century
The skeleton of Death, Freund Hans, embracing the author Musaus and the artist Schellenberg. They stand in a library and shake hands while holding a print of the Grim Reaper, a skeleton with scythe

Background imageMortality Collection: The skeleton of Death, Freund Hans

The skeleton of Death, Freund Hans, guides a quack doctor to his death, 18th century. The apothecary stands in a shop decorated with a crocodile, scales and bottles of drugs, medicines and poisons

Background imageMortality Collection: The skeleton of Death in a moonlight duel, 18th century

The skeleton of Death in a moonlight duel, 18th century
The skeleton of Death, Freund Hans, in a duel with a gentleman in a street in town, 18th century. The gentleman thrusts with his sword in the moonlight. Der Zweikampf

Background imageMortality Collection: The skeleton of Death press-gangs a man, 18th century

The skeleton of Death press-gangs a man, 18th century
The skeleton of Death, Freund Hans, press-gangs a man into military service outside a public house, 18th century. The skeleton wears a soldier's bicorn and sword while a fiddler plays a violin

Background imageMortality Collection: The skeleton of Death guides an initiate to the Masons, 18th cen

The skeleton of Death guides an initiate to the Masons, 18th cen
The skeleton of Death, Freund Hans, guides an initiate to a ceremony at a Masonic Lodge, 18th century. The initiate is blindfolded and enters a room with many men sitting around a table with candles

Background imageMortality Collection: The skeleton of Death pours wine into a glutton's mouth

The skeleton of Death pours wine into a glutton's mouth
The skeleton of Death, Freund Hans, pours wine into the mouth of an obese glutton, 18th century. A maid brings a tureen of soup to the dining table while a guest flees. The Glutton. Der Schlemmer

Background imageMortality Collection: The skeleton of Death embracing a woman, 18th century

The skeleton of Death embracing a woman, 18th century
The skeleton of Death, Freund Hans, embracing a woman while pointing to a Viennese woman with a bony hand, 18th century. Viennese and Roman women. Wienerin und Romerin

Background imageMortality Collection: The skeleton of Death brings a lottery number to a gambler, 18th

The skeleton of Death brings a lottery number to a gambler, 18th
The skeleton of Death, Freund Hans, brings a lottery number to a gambler in a wood-panelled room, 18th century. The gambler holds his head, while a servant points to him. The lottery player

Background imageMortality Collection: The skeleton of Death embraces a poor man, 18th century

The skeleton of Death embraces a poor man, 18th century
The skeleton of Death, Freund Hans, embraces a poor man, 18th century. Death points a bony hand to the sky while leading the old man to an open grave. Safe passage for a friend. Freundes Geleit

Background imageMortality Collection: The skeleton of Death catching two lovers in a net

The skeleton of Death catching two lovers in a net
The skeleton of Death, Freund Hans, catching two lovers under a tree in a net. 18th century man and woman kissing at the moment of death. Destroyed love. Zestorte Liebe

Background imageMortality Collection: The skeleton of Death and the gamester

The skeleton of Death and the gamester. A gambler sits at a table with cup and dice, as Death enters with legal scrolls reading Assignment Property and Estates Entail and a cup to cover the dice

Background imageMortality Collection: The skeleton of Death and a minstrel

The skeleton of Death and a minstrel. The troubadour plays a lute and serenades a woman at an upper window, while Death armed with daggers hides in a doorway

Background imageMortality Collection: The skeleton of Death bowls a ball at a cricketer at bat

The skeleton of Death bowls a ball at a cricketer at bat. The wicket keeper is Father Time with his scythe. A top hat, coat, cricket bat and ball lie on the ground

Background imageMortality Collection: The skeleton of Death and the artist

The skeleton of Death and the artist. A painter with paintbrush and palette paints a figure of Father Time with a scythe while the skeleton of Death sits at a table

Background imageMortality Collection: The skeleton of Death and the angler

The skeleton of Death and the angler. Death with a fishing net approaches a fisherman on a riverbank with fishing rod and basket

Background imageMortality Collection: The skeleton of Death brings a scroll to a woman on a terrace

The skeleton of Death brings a scroll to a woman on a terrace. The woman lies dead on the ground next to the scroll. Death in a cape holding a staff

Background imageMortality Collection: Vignette of three skeletons on a gravestone

Vignette of three skeletons on a gravestone, the Last of the Graces

Background imageMortality Collection: The skeleton of Death on the theatre stage

The skeleton of Death on the theatre stage. Death in a crown, tunic and cape, a globe, playscript of Life a Play, drama masks on the stage, Tutto Finisce on the curtains, a woman weeping in a box

Background imageMortality Collection: The skeleton of Death and the Phaeton

The skeleton of Death and the Phaeton. Death kneels behind a two-horse gig loosening one wheel from the axle. A man cracks a whip in the driver's seat and a woman holds a parasol

Background imageMortality Collection: The skeleton of Death and the lawyer

The skeleton of Death and the lawyer. The barrister in wig and gown sits at a table writing a document with a quill pen. Death enters his chambers with a brief

Background imageMortality Collection: The pilgrim handed a letter by the skeleton of Death

The pilgrim handed a letter by the skeleton of Death
The pilgrim handed a letter by the skeleton of death in hat and cassock with staff. The pilgrim sits at a table with a lute and her foot on a footstool

Background imageMortality Collection: The skeleton of Death and the miser

The skeleton of Death and the miser. The skeleton holds up a bag of stolen gold as the miser holds up his hands at the loss of his treasure

Background imageMortality Collection: The skeleton of Death with university students

The skeleton of Death with university students. Death in mortarboard and gown sits on a throne and offers laurels to two students in gowns

Background imageMortality Collection: The skeleton of Death and the quack doctor

The skeleton of Death and the quack doctor. Death enters the room with bottle of medicine as the mountebank takes the pulse of a sick man in a chair with a footrest

Background imageMortality Collection: The skeleton of Death and the glutton

The skeleton of Death and the glutton. Death carries a platter with a fish head. The obese man sits at the dining table waiting with knife and fork in hand

Background imageMortality Collection: The skeleton of Death and the alchemist

The skeleton of Death and the alchemist. Death holds a vial above a chemistry experiment that explodes in flame in the alchemist's tongs

Background imageMortality Collection: The skeleton of Death brings the last bottle of wine to a drinke

The skeleton of Death brings the last bottle of wine to a drinke
The skeleton of Death brings the last bottle of wine to a group of drinkers in a room. The men raise their glasses in a toast to Death. Empty wine bottles lie on the floor

Background imageMortality Collection: The skeleton of Death and the warrior

The skeleton of Death and the warrior. Death helps the knight put on his plumed helm before a tourney. The knight wears full plate armour and holds a sword

Background imageMortality Collection: The poet and the skeleton of Death

The poet and the skeleton of Death

Background imageMortality Collection: The skeleton of Death pricks bubbles of life

The skeleton of Death pricks bubbles of life
The skeleton of Death pricks with his darts the bubbles of life blown by a philiosopher and a fool before a pyramid

Background imageMortality Collection: The skeleton of Death preaching to a crowd

The skeleton of Death preaching to a crowd. Death stands in a necropolis of bones and skulls, and rests his ledger on a crouching skeleton. Wealthy ladies, a gentlemen, an old man and child watch

Background imageMortality Collection: Title page from Volume 2 of Death's Doings

Title page from Volume 2 of Death's Doings
Title page with calligraphy and vignette of the skeleton of Death with rope and whip looking at a man hanging from a gibbet, the Last of the Graceless

Background imageMortality Collection: The skeleton of Death as champion boxer

The skeleton of Death as champion boxer
The skeleton of Death in boxing gloves and breeches stands over dead boxers in a ring. Three bare-knuckle prizefighters lie dead next to an empty wine bottle. The Champion

Background imageMortality Collection: The skeleton of Death and a woman at her toilette

The skeleton of Death and a woman at her toilette. A young woman holds flowers in her hair sitting in front of a mirror at her dressing table. A mask and invitation to a masked ball lie on the floor

Background imageMortality Collection: The skeleton of Death and the Antiquary

The skeleton of Death and the Antiquary. Death sits behind a gravestone reading Hic Jacet Jonathan Oldbuck FAS Obit. The historian sits at a desk writing in a ledger

Background imageMortality Collection: The skeleton of Death at the insurance office

The skeleton of Death at the insurance office. Death behind the counter with a quill pen gives out Life Assurance contracts to an old man and woman in an office

Background imageMortality Collection: The skeleton of Death and the mother

The skeleton of Death and the mother. A skeleton feeds a baby on its knee, while the mother examines embroidered fabric and a young servant holds up a hat

Background imageMortality Collection: Title page from Volume 1 of Death's Doings

Title page from Volume 1 of Death's Doings
Title page with calligraphy and vignette of three skeletons on a gravestone, the Last of the Graces

Background imageMortality Collection: The Death of the Good Old Man (Plate V)

The Death of the Good Old Man (Plate V). The shrouded body of a bearded old man lies on a bed with the Bible in his hand, surrounded by young women praying

Background imageMortality Collection: The Descent of Man into the Vale of Death

The Descent of Man into the Vale of Death (Plate II). Men and women, old and young, mothers with babes, infirm and healthy, walk, run, crawl and hobble down a path into a cave

Background imageMortality Collection: The Counseller, King, Warrior, Mother and Child in the Tomb

The Counseller, King, Warrior, Mother and Child in the Tomb (Plate VIII). Bodies of a bearded sage, king with crown and sceptre, knight in armour with sword, mother in shroud embracing a baby

Background imageMortality Collection: The Soul hovering over the Body reluctantly parting with Life

The Soul hovering over the Body reluctantly parting with Life (Plate VI). A woman's spirit looks down with shock at her corpse in a shroud on her deathbed

Background imageMortality Collection: The Soul exploring the recesses of the Grave

The Soul exploring the recesses of the Grave (Plate VII). A woman in a shroud with candle walks toward flames in a cave. A man watches from above in the moonlight

Background imageMortality Collection: Death of the Strong Wicked Man

Death of the Strong Wicked Man (Plate IV). A woman screams in grief over the body of a man on a mattress. HIs spirit ascends through a window. Another girl stands weeping at the head of the bed

Background imageMortality Collection: The Reunion of the Soul and the Body

The Reunion of the Soul and the Body (Plate X). A male figure embraced by a shrouded woman spirit diving from above. Flames and smoke billow from a tomb and gravestone

Background imageMortality Collection: The Meeting of the Family in Heaven

The Meeting of the Family in Heaven (Plate XI). A man and woman embrace surrounded by children hugging. Two angels hover over the family

Background imageMortality Collection: The Ravens, the Sexton and the Earth-Worm

The Ravens, the Sexton and the Earth-Worm. A gravedigger stands with a shovel next to a tomb with a stone effigy in a churchyard. A skull and worm in the excavated earth

Background imageMortality Collection: Roman era. Stele of Lutatia Lupata

Roman era. Stele of Lutatia Lupata. The young Lutatia is depicted playing a stringed instrument, of the pandarium type

Background imageMortality Collection: Statistics relating to Bournville Village in the 1920s

Statistics relating to Bournville Village in the 1920s

Background imageMortality Collection: Old Man Men Life Death Grim Reaper Oval Memento

Old Man Men Life Death Grim Reaper Oval Memento
old, man, men, life, death, grim, reaper, oval, memento, mori, skeleton, carrying, scythe, reminder, mortality, 11075719

Background imageMortality Collection: God of Death. Teotihuacan culture. Sculpture. MEXICO

God of Death. Teotihuacan culture. Sculpture. MEXICO. FEDERAL DISTRICT. Mexico City. National Museum of Anthropology. Proc: MEXICO. STATE OF MEXICO. Teotihuacᮮ

Background imageMortality Collection: ZANCHI, Antonio (1631-1722). Death in Venice. 1666

ZANCHI, Antonio (1631-1722). Death in Venice. 1666. Baroque art. Oil on canvas. AUSTRIA. VIENNA. Vienna. Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna (Museum of Art History)

Background imageMortality Collection: PINAZO CAMARLENCH, Ignacio (1849-1916). Child Death

PINAZO CAMARLENCH, Ignacio (1849-1916). Child Death, 1882. Modernism. Oil on canvas. SPAIN. Valencia. San Pio V Fine Arts Museum

Background imageMortality Collection: World War I. Tombs

World War I. Tombs
First World War (1914-1918). Tombs of war mates. Picture by Jean Lefort published in L'Illustration (25th November 1916). Drawing

Background imageMortality Collection: GUTIERREZ SOLANA, Jos鮠'Untitled

GUTIERREZ SOLANA, Jos鮠'Untitled
GUTIERREZ SOLANA, Jos頨1886-1945). Untitled. Expressionism. Oil on canvas

Background imageMortality Collection: PILE OF SKULLS PHOTO

PILE OF SKULLS PHOTO
A pile of skulls, in an unidentified location. Date: 20th century

Background imageMortality Collection: CROSS REMINDS OF DEATH

CROSS REMINDS OF DEATH
A wayside cross is a reminder of mortality to travellers - an illustration to Wynkyn de Worde's The Ordynarye of Chrysten Men Date: 1502

Background imageMortality Collection: The honesty of an Elderly Irish Woman - Mortality

The honesty of an Elderly Irish Woman - Mortality
Mrs Murphy - " Shure its goin to be a moighty hard winter, Father dear; there ll be a moighty lot av us owld Folks Nipped in the BUd, oi m thinking." Date: circa 1890s

Background imageMortality Collection: Elderly woman comments to the vicar on the new graveyard

Elderly woman comments to the vicar on the new graveyard
Cheerful Old Party (to the Vicar): " Th new Graveyards fillin up nicely, Sir!" Date: circa 1890s

Background imageMortality Collection: Better housing The solution to infant mortality in the slums

Better housing The solution to infant mortality in the slums

Background imageMortality Collection: A simple poor grave, Arista, Chile

A simple poor grave, Arista, Chile Date: circa 1910s


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