Dead Collection

For Sunday's Dinner, 1888. A plucked chicken, a few stray feathers remaining, hangs upside-down by one foot, illuminated. Behind it the metal hinges and wood panels of a door are visible

Lamartine refusant le drapeau rouge devant l'Hôtel de Ville
Lamartine refusant le drapeau rouge devant l'Hotel de Ville, c.1848. Lamartine rejecting the red flag in front of the Hotel de Ville. Revolution of 1848, Paris

Book of the Dead or Papyrus of Any. ca. 1275 BC. 19th Dynasty. Scene from the dead judgement before the presence of Osiris. Egyptian art. New Kingdom. Painting. UNITED KINGDOM. London

The Great Sacrifice by James Clark, WW1
The Great Sacrifice by James Clark, originally published in the 1914 Christmas number of The Graphic

Papyrus of Ani (Book of the Dead) - The Judgement
(Above) -Twelve Gods seated in Order, as judges before a table of offerings. (Below) - The Psychostasia of Weighing of the Conscience of Ani

Chatterton (The Death of Chatterton), 1856. Creator: Henry Wallis
Chatterton (The Death of Chatterton), 1856. Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770) was an unsuccessful poet whose suicide became a symbol of blighted artistic genius

Smithfield Market
The vast interior of Smithfield meat market, with carcasses hanging from hooks all down the central aisle

Freya in her Chariot
In Scandinavian mythology, the Goddess of love, marriage and the dead. She was the wife of Odin, and is the counterpart of Venus, and is sometimes identified as Frigg

Map of Palestine and the Holy Land - all places named in their Latin form. Date: 1806

Blitz in London -- ambulance at Ladywell, Lewisham, WW2
Blitz in London -- an ambulance and rescue workers in the Ladywell area of Lewisham, SE13, where houses were demolished by a parachute bomb, 18 September 1940

Odin and Hounds
Odin (Wodan), Scandinavian supreme god of the dead etc with his hounds Hugin, Munin, Geri and Freki, fierce enough but they will not save him from the wolf Fenrir

Scottish Deerhound, guarding a dead deer Date: 20th century

Horses skull, coloured X-ray

Death of King Harold, Bayeux Tapestry, 69, Normandy, France, Europe

Thomas Chatterton
THOMAS CHATTERTON The young English poet lies dead, having taken arsenic

Book of the Dead Plate 3
The weighing of Anis conscience by Anubis : Thoth notes the result - Anemit waits to devour him if guilty (which he is not)

Charge of Light Brigade
The charge of the Light Brigade Cardigan in action

Lions and Dead Quagga, by Thomas Baines
Lions and Dead Quagga, Vultures and Adjutants, Zululand, by Thomas Baines (1820-1875). (3 of 5) Date: 1874

Yuri Gagarin, Soviet cosmonaut
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (1934-1968), Soviet cosmonaut and first man in space, artwork. Gagarin was born near Gzhatsk, Russia

The Dance of Death (1493) by Michael Wolgemut, from the Liber chronicarum by Hartmann Schedel. Colored engraving

ERNEST HEMINGWAY (1899-1961). American writer. Hunting in Kenya, February 1934

The Battle of Naseby, 1645, 1727, (1944). Creator: Dupuis
The Battle of Naseby, 1645, 1727, (1944)

Picture No. 11981750
Red Deer stalking; two Scottish ghillies with the day's bag old postcard c1910. Date:

Australian sunset
Dead trees are silhouetted at sunset by the lake at Menindee Lakes

GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT. Sir Gawain beheading the Green Knight. Manuscript illumination from Gawain and the Green Knight, English, 14th century

French revolutionary politician Jean-Paul Marat
DAVID: THE DEATH OF MARAT. French revolutionary politician Jean-Paul Marat, fatally stabbed in his bath by Charlotte Corday, 13 July 1793. Oil on canvas, 1793, by Jacques Louis David

Doc Hollidays Grave, Glenwood Springs, Colorado, United States of America, North America

War Cemetery, 1939-1945, World War II, Bayeux, Basse Normandie (Normandy), France, Europe

Tollund man found in a nearby peat bog in the Silkeborg museum in central Jutland, Denmark, Scandinavia, Europe

Ossuary Chapel of skulls - Valletta, Malta - destroyed by a bomb during World War II. Date: circa 1910s

France, Paris, Greek War of Independence, Insurrection flag
Greece - 19th century - War of Independence. Insurrection flag 1821

Edwin Hubble, US astronomer C008 / 8831
Edwin Hubble. Caricature of the US astronomer, cosmologist, athlete and boxer Edwin Powell Hubble (1889-1953) smoking a pipe

MANTEGNA, Andrea (1431-1506). The Lamentation over the Dead Christ. ca. 1490. Renaissance art. Quattrocento. Tempera. ITALY. Milan. Pinacotheca of Brera

A gamekeeper and the bag of a days shooting Date: circa 1910s

Mounted butterflies

Samuel Hahnemann, German physician
Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843), German physician and founder of homeopathy. His theory was that an illness may be cured by administering minute doses of a drug which causes the same symptoms

Baruch Spinoza, caricature
Baruch Spinoza. Caricature of the Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677). Spinoza is considered to be one of Western philosophys most important philosophers

RUSSELL: STAGE ROBBER. A stage robber pointing a shotgun. The vignette in the right corner shows the robber with a treasure box and a dead messenger as the stagecoach drives off

Hunting Series (1 of 5) - Deer Stalking - returning with the spoils

Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll (1848-1939) shown in the late 1860s with a pet dog. Louise was the fourth daughter and sixth child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert

Lake Kariba - Sunset over drowned trees - Africa, Zimbabwe, Matusadona NP
VG-3930 Lake Kariba - Sunset over drowned trees Africa, Zimbabwe, Matusadona NP Paul Van Gaalen Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in anyway

Monkey skulls embedded in mud wall to protect against evil spirits, Dogon village of Telle, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Mali, Africa

Weighing of the Heart
Ani, recently dead, is judged in the Underworld where his heart is weighed

Odin Drinks at Mimir
Odin (Wodan), Scandinavian supreme god of the dead etc acquires his wisdom by drinking at the fountain of Mimir

Book of the Dead / 34
Scene of the sepulchral chamber : the mummy guarded by Anubis, Isis kneels at the foot and Nephthys at the head - four children of Horus at each corner

Judgement Day / Osiris
Judgement of the dead before Osiris in the Underworld

Hoffmann / Augustus / Soup
THE STORY OF AUGUSTUS WHO WOULD NOT HAVE ANY SOUP "...& on the fifth day he was dead!"

Valentin Glushko, Soviet scientist
Valentin Glushko (1908-1989), Soviet rocket scientist. Glushko was one of the most important scientists in the development of the Soviet space programme

Cobblestone walkway at Pere Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, France

Papilio montrouzieri butterfly. This butterfly is native to New Caledonia in the Pacific Ocean

Saint George / Byam Shaw
SAINT GEORGE " What Every Johnnie Bull Knows" drawn by Byam Shaw depicting a rather vicious looking St. George and a very dead dragon

Saint Michael
SAINT MICHAEL, the warrior angel, has weighed the devil in his scales and found him wanting; so now he raises his sword to slay him. Alas, Satan will not stay dead

William A. Doberck, Danish astronomer
William A. Doberck (1852-1941), Danish astronomer. Doberck became the first director of the Hong Kong Observatory from its foundation in 1883 until 1907

Ancient bristlecone pine trees on Wheeler Peak, Great Basin National Park
ROG-12244 Ancient bristlecone pine trees Wheeler Peak, Great Basin National Park, Nevada

The Ossuary in Sedlec, Kutna Hora, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Czech Republic, Europe

The Morning Lady Dedlock is found dead by the gates of the cemetery in which Captain Hawdon lies buried

Soldiers Relaxing Ww1
Sikh and English soldiers in the British army enjoy a relaxed time chatting and playing a game of cards

Mariner, Watersnakes
The Mariner, the dead albatross slung round his neck, watches the sea snakes and blesses them as living things in his desolate world

Book of the Dead / 28
The coot, the lotus, and the god who lightens the darkness, illustrating transformations

Wellington reorganizes his defence - Battle of Waterloo
7pm - June 18, 1815. The Duke of Wellington reorganizes his central defence after the loss of La Haye Sainte. At the same time, The Prussians once again regain control of Plancenoit

Ossuary Chapel of skulls - Valletta, Malta - destroyed by a bomb during World War II. Date: circa 1910s

Fame Visits the Heroic Unknown Dead
Fame hovers over a makeshift grave on the former Western Front choosing an unknown soldier to be buried in Westminster Abbey in the tomb of the unknown warrior

Dead trees on the beach at Hokitika, a busy goldrush port in 1860s, where 42 vessels lost on treacherous beach, in Westland, South Island, New Zealand, Pacific

Dickens / M. Chuzzlewit
The Life & Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit. Sarah (Sairey) Gamp, midwife, nurse and layer out of the dead, wearing an apron and a bonnet

Oxford V Cambridge 1877
(L) Danger Ahead (R) At Barnes Race which had a controversial dead heat finish

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

The Crucifixion, ca. 1675. Creator: Bartolome Esteban Murillo
The Crucifixion, ca. 1675

The Death of Amy Robsart - William Frederick Yeames
Oil on Canvas 87 x 61

RAF Belize - No. 1417 Flight RAF July 1990 informal
RAF Belize - No.1417 Flight RAF, July 1990 informal photograph. Taken at Foxy-Golf hide on Philip S. W. Goldson International Airport, Ladyville, Belize

De humani corporis fabrica (Of the Structure of the Human Body), 1555

The Dragon Devouring the Companions of Cadmus, 1588. Creator: Hendrik Goltzius
The Dragon Devouring the Companions of Cadmus, 1588

JAMES GANG, 1876. A shootout after the raid on the First National Bank of Northfield, Minnesota, by Jesse James and his gang. Engraving, c1876

The kill at a Victorian fox hunt
The horrible aftermath of the kill at a Victorian fox hunt, with the hounds tearing pieces from the corpse and a jubilant huntsman dancing a jig with the unfortunate foxas brush

Confederate soldiers in action, Battle of Chickamauga
Braggs Confederates firing from the woods at Chickamauga, Georgia, 1863. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Einstein and Eddington, 1930
Einstein and Eddington. German-born physicist Albert Einstein (1879-1955), at left, was famous for his theories of relativity

The Laying in the Tomb ( The Deposition / The Entombment ), 1602-1604. Mary of Clopas with her arms raised; Mary Magdalene with bowed head; Nicodemus grasps the legs of the dead Christ

George Calver, English instrument maker
George Calver (1834-1927) English scientific instrument maker

Andrew Ainslie Common, British Astronomer
Andrew Ainslie Common (1841-1903) British astronomer

St Dubhthachs Church or Clachan Duich Cemetery
This ancient church and cemetery overlooks Loch Duich in between Dornie and Shiel Bridge, near A87 Morvich. In the distance to the left is the mountain Beinn Fhada or Ben Attow

DANIEL MACLISE Wellington and Blucher battle waterloo
The Meeting of Wellington and BlAOEcher after the Battle of Waterloo

Tyrannosaurus Rex eats the carrion of a dead Triceratops
A Tyrannosaurus Rex eats the carrion of a dead Triceratops in prehistoric wetlands

A large Rajasaurus roars in an attempt to scare two Indosuchus away from their kill
A large Rajasaurus bellows in an attempt to intimidate two Indosuchus dinosaurs away from a dead Titanosaurus. A pack of small Compsosuchus watch while they eat scraps of meat in the foreground

Ewaso Ng iro River in Samburu National Reserve, Kenya, East Africa, Africa, PublicGround

COCK FIGHT, 1840. Lithograph after a drawing by Henry Thomas Alken, 1840

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"The Great Sacrifice: Unveiling the Haunting Realities of WW1 in James Clark's Masterpiece" Step into the world of war and witness the profound impact it had on humanity. In "The Great Sacrifice" by James Clark, a vivid depiction of World War 1 unfolds before your eyes. From trenches to battlefields, this powerful artwork captures the essence of sacrifice and loss. Journey through ancient Egyptian beliefs with the "Papyrus of Ani (Book of the Dead) - The Judgement. " Delve into a realm where souls face their ultimate fate, as they stand before Osiris for judgment. This timeless papyrus offers insights into life after death and serves as a reminder that our actions have consequences. Transport yourself back to medieval times with "Book of the Dead or Papyrus of Any. Ca. 1275. " Explore intricate illustrations depicting mythical beings guiding souls towards eternal peace. These captivating images provide glimpses into ancient rituals surrounding death and burial practices. Marvel at Freya in her majestic chariot, symbolizing both life and death in Norse mythology. As she rides across the sky, accompanied by Odin and his loyal hounds, an ethereal connection between mortality and divinity is revealed. Discover Tollund Man found preserved in a peat bog at Silkeborg museum in central Jutland. This astonishing archaeological find allows us to glimpse into Iron Age customs surrounding death rituals – a haunting reminder that even centuries later, we are still connected to those who came before us. Plate 3 from the Book takes us on an enchanting journey through Egyptian mythology once again. Intricate hieroglyphs intertwine with mesmerizing illustrations, offering insight into how ancient Egyptians perceived life beyond death. Witness nature's breathtaking farewell with an Australian sunset painting its canvas with hues so vibrant they seem almost alive themselves. As day bids adieu to nightfall, contemplate how each sunset reminds us of the ephemeral nature of life.