Grim Reaper Gallery

Soviet cholera vaccination poster, 1967

Soviet cholera vaccination poster. Poster which appeared in the USSR in 1967, urging citizens to get themselves vaccinated against cholera. Cholera is spread in food and water infected by the bacterium Vibria cholerae. It causes vomiting and diarrhoea with death resulting from dehydration. Photographed in Russia

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Death begging Kaiser Wilhelm to replace him with a substitute as he is so exhausted

DGC288154 Death begging Kaiser Wilhelm to replace him with a substitute as he is so exhausted, 13 April, 1916 (litho) by Iribe, Paul (1883-1935); Private Collection; (add.info.: cartoon from a special edition of the humorous 1st World War magazine, La Baionette, produced to entertain French soldiers; Wilhelm II (1859-1941), King of Prussia and Emperor of Germany (1888-1918); Plus Fort que la Mort...Replace-moi, je suis fatigue;); Prismatic Pictures ; French, out of copyright

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Catherine Monvoisin with the Three Fates on the right and Death on the left

AMO286199 Catherine Monvoisin with the Three Fates on the right and Death on the left (pencil on paper) by Coypel, Antoine (1661-1722); Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, UK; (add.info.: Catherine Monvoisin, known as "La Voisin" (1640-80), French sorceress, whose maiden name was Catherine Deshayes, was one of the chief personages in the famous affaire des poisons, which disgraced the reign of Louis XIV;); A© Ashmolean Museum ; French, out of copyright

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