Mourning Collection (page 4)

14th century English mourning dress
English mourning dress Date: 14th century

FUNERAL OF MRS BRIGHT
The funeral of Mrs John Bright, wife of the statesman (seen standing at the head of the open grave)

MOURNING AT GRAVE
Two women and a gentleman pay their respects beside the grave of a recently deceased relative Date: 1899

Advert for Jay's mourning dress 1888
A widow stands on the deck of a ship, looking wistfully towards the shore... but also looking decorative and remarriageable, thanks to her mourning dress from Jay's 1888

Black Ascot 1910
Black Ascot, King Edward VII, who was a great supporter of racing, died shortly before the event. It was deemed appropriate that the races be conducted in mourning

ASCOT FASHION 1910
Due to the recent death of Edward VII, mourning is in force at the Ascot race meeting, and fashionable ladies parade in various shades of black Date: 1910

BERLIOZ FANTIN LATOUR
HECTOR BERLIOZ characters from his operas pay homage to the French composer on the occasion of his death Date: 1803 -1869

MOURNING / SACKCLOTH
Wearing sackcloth as an outward sign of inward grief Date: circa 1840

MOURNING/DRESS - 1811
Discreetly elegant, reverently fashionable... Date: 1811

FASHIONABLE YOUNG WIDOW
Pretty young widow in mourning dress takes tea with a handsome young man while she views the architect's plans for her husband's mausoleum Date: 1820s

DEATH/MOURNING/MILK
A Native Canadian couple mourn their dead child : she presses onto the tomb some of the milk which should have been the baby's nourishment Date: 1781

MOURNING DRESS/1844
Two ladies in French mourning dress sit on a verandah Date: 5 July 1844

ROMAN MOURNING
A superbly expressive scene of Romans mourning a young woman who has just died : note the torn clothing of the lady on the left and the variety of attitudes of the mourners

MOURNING DRESS WAREHOUSE
A receipt for items of mourning dress Date: 1858

FRENCH HERALDS C15
Heralds in France at the time of the death of Charles VI (they give the bad news to the King's son). Date: circa 1500

Putting bee-hives into mourning 1856
Telling the bees, traditional European custom in which bees would be told of an important event in the beekeepers life, such as long journeys, births, marriages and deaths

Apparitions: angels & the ghost of a lover comforts woman
The spirit of a dead man, accompanied by two angels, returns to Earth to comfort his surviving lover. Date: circa 1810

The collapse of the Duma, Russia 1906
"The Death of the First Born" - comment on the collapse of the first Imperial Russian Duma in 1906. Date: 1906

EGYPTIAN FUNERAL
Funeral procession in Ancient Egypt. The mummy is on a boat-shaped hearse, the mourning wife kneels beside, a priest officiates in front and mourners follow behind

BOOK OF THE DEAD PLATE 5
Funeral procession : the mummy on a boat-shaped hearse drawn by oxen, the mourning wife kneels beside, a priest officiates in front and mourners follow behind

Funeral of Edward VII, with favourite dog
The funeral of King Edward VII, with his favourite dog Caesar and horse following behind. 1910

Japanese people in mourning dress
A group of Japanese people in mourning dress. Date: 1846

Japanese funeral procession
A Japanese funeral procession. Date: 16th century

Women in Victorian mourning fashions
Mourning fashions for 1887. Date: 1887

Harrods mail order service for mourning costumes. Date: 1909

Cat death in Egypt
An aristocratic lady of ancient Egypt prepares to go into mourning for the death of her cat Date: BC

Comic postcard, Man at Nellies grave Date: 20th century

Fashions for October 1857
Fashions for October, 1857. The lady on the left wears a fashionable style of outdoor clothing for mourning. The mantle she wears is called the Conheath

Comic postcard, Teddy bear soldier with bearskin, Alas, my poor brother! Date: 20th century

A beautiful and highly-detailed chromolithograph scrap portrait of Victoria (1819-1901), Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 1837 until her death

If ye break faith with us who die, we shall not sleep, though poppies grow in Flanders fields. The mother, widow and little daughter of a British soldier who died early in World War One visit his

Three women, probably from the same family, all in black, possibly in mourning. Date: c.1895

Homecoming of martyred Dublin officers: Londons tribute to victims of Sinn Fein murderers. Date: 1920

A night scene at the Cenotaph in the days following 11th November 1920, where a hundred thousand wreaths were laid, and over a million people passed by to offer their tributes to the dead of

Pilgrimage past the Unknown Warrior, 1920
Mourners visiting the grave of the Unknown Warrior in Westminster Abbey, London. A British soldier who was killed on a European battlefield during the First World War. 1920

Styrian peasants with donkey, 1818. The woman carries a basket and milkpale. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Mary Anne Vennings A Geographical Present being Descriptions of the Principal

Charing Cross, Carlton House and the Quadrant, Regent Street. Statue of King Charles I by Le Sueur at Charing Cross 70, Carlton House by architect Henry Holland demolished in 1826 71

English huntsman making a dangerous jump over a stone wall beneath a low branch, 19th century. Facey Romford hitting his head on a branch during a fox-hunt. Rot the beggar, exclaims Romford

Mourning dove, Zenaida macroura, with nest and egg. Chromolithograph after an illustration by Edwin Sheppard from Thomas George Gentrys Nests and Eggs of the Birds of the United States, J.A

Prairie warbler, Setophaga discolor. Chromolithograph after an illustration by Edwin Sheppard from Thomas George Gentrys Nests and Eggs of the Birds of the United States, J.A

Milk-vendor anabaptists of Basel, Switzerland, 16th century
Milk-vendor Anabaptists of Basel, Switzerland, 16th century. Anabattisti. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Verico from Giulio Ferrarios Costumes Ancient and Modern of the Peoples of the World

The corpse of Hector brought into Troy. The Trojan soldiers wear helmets that resemble Phrygian caps. Priam kneels at the left, and Hectors wife Andromache and son Astyanax mourn at right

Roman wedding ceremony. Bride and groom hold hands embraced by the goddess Juno Pronuba, while two cupids fly above with garland and foliage

Woman in half-mourning outfit of cape and gown, 1913
Woman in half-mourning outfit of black-and-white striped cape over a black gown. Demi-deuil. Handcoloured pochoir (stencil)

Woman in violet satin dress with purple sash, 1913
Woman in violet satin dress with purple sash ornamented with large velvet flowers. She swings an incense thurible. Robe de satin violet a ceinture pourpre et ornee d un grand ruban broche de fleurs

Mourning figures German War Cemetery Langemarck
In various renovations over the years these figures have been moved from place to place in the cemetery. Now they stand at the top end of the mass grave. They were sculpted by Professor Emil Krieger

Cartoon, The Disappointed Undertakers (Liberal Party)
Cartoon, The Disappointed Undertakers -- a satirical comment on the rivaly between the Liberal Party (represented by Lord John Russell, John Bright and William Gladstone)

Why I Became A Vegetarian, Lady Augustus Paget
Why I Became A Vegetarian, by Lady Augustus Paget (Walburga Ehrengarde Helena, Lady Paget, nÚÑáCountess von Hohenthal, 1839-1929). 1899

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