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Death and Mortality Themes

Powerful illustrations reflecting themes of death and mortality, featuring figures like skeletons and woodcutters in somber, atmospheric scenes.

Un lever de soleil , Sunrises & sunsets, Hills, Buildings, Alphonse Legros (1837-1911)
Un lever de soleil , Sunrises & sunsets, Hills, Buildings, Alphonse Legros (1837-1911)
243 assets in this story
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Eva (No 1)  Portfolio: Eva and Future / Ewa I Future Klinger, Max (1857 1920)
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Diane ca. 1830-70 Célestin Nanteuil. Diane. Célestin Nanteuil (French (born Italy), Rome 1813-1873 Bourron-Marlotte). ca. 1830-70. Lithograph. Prints
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Vergewaltigt, Blatt II aus dem Zyklus: Bauernkrieg. Kollwitz, Käthe (1867-1945), graphic artist
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Sandhamn Made 1906 Sweden. Etching on ivory laid paper . Anders Zorn
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The Wild Cherry Tree. Dated: 1918. Dimensions: image: 27.31 × 28.58 cm (10 3/4 × 11 1/4 in.) sheet: 34.61 × 42.86 cm (13 5/8 × 16 7/8 in.). Medium: lithograph in black on wove paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Childe Hassam.
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Withered Spring. Dimensions: image: 39.2 x 22.3 cm (15 7/16 x 8 3/4 in.) sheet: 42.2 x 25.2 cm (16 5/8 x 9 15/16 in.) mat: 55.9 x 40.6 cm (22 x 16 in.). Medium: pen and black ink heightened with white over graphite. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Aubrey Beardsley.
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Centaure: The Eagles, 1926. Ker Xavier Roussel (French, 1867-1944), Auguste Clot (French, 1858-1936), Ambroise Vollard (French, 1867-1939). Lithograph; sheet: 32.6 x 23.5 cm (12 13/16 x 9 1/4 in.); platemark: 19.9 x 14.9 cm (7 13/16 x 5 7/8 in.).
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William Blake, 1757-1827, British, Illustrations of Imitation of Eclogue I, Page 14, 1821. Wood-engraving and letterpress on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper.
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O'Connor's Child, Edward Goodall, 1795-1870, British, after Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775-1851, British, 1837, Line engraving, engraver's proof
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Photo production of the engraving The Blind Piper Crossing the Stream, Anonymous, c. 1870 - c. 1875 photograph This photo is part of an album.  paper albumen print print, e.g.: engraving, etching, lithograph
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Saint Jerome in the desert, Moses ter Borch, after Rembrandt van Rijn, 1661, draughtsman: Moses ter Borch, Rembrandt van Rijn, Zwolle, 1661, paper, brush, h 119 mm × w 98 mm
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Le chemineau , Tramps, Alphonse Legros (1837-1911)
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"Tess flung herself down upon  the undergrowth of rustling  spear-grass as upon a bed" &  considered her future...       Date: First published: 1891
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A brown brush and pencil draft by Ernst Christian Johann Friedrich Preller the Elder depicting Duke Wilhelm falling in the Tambachgrund during the first fir tree selection for Weimar Castle construction, on brown paper, after 1836.
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End of The Valkyrie. Henri Fantin-Latour; French, 1836-1904. Date: 1879. Dimensions: 226 × 275 mm (image); 345 × 447 mm (sheet). Lithograph in black with scraping on stone on thick ivory wove paper. Origin: France. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA.
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An old English mill, 19th century.Artist: Birket Foster
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Apollo, Lyra and Daphne (Trade card illustrating "Marian, an Opera") 1797-99 Thomas Rowlandson. Apollo, Lyra and Daphne (Trade card illustrating "Marian, an Opera"). Derived from Angelica Kauffmann (Swiss, Chur 1741-1807 Rome). 1797-99. Etching, printed in brown ink. Broderip and Wilkinson (British, established 1797). Prints
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Honoré Daumier, Marius a minturnes, 19th century Marius a minturnes
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Wild Horse Brought Down by a Tiger. Eugène Delacroix; French, 1798-1863. Date: 1828. Dimensions: 220 × 271 mm (chine); 243 × 319 mm (sheet). Lithograph in black on light gray China paper laid down on white wove paper. Origin: France. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.
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Theme from the Tuchola Forest. Wyczółkowski, Leon (1852-1936), graphic artist
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Jerome Myers, Springtime, c 1919 Springtime
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Gajowo from Podhale /Loan Podhale Skoczylas, W Adys Aw (1883-1934); 1929 (1929-00-00-1929-00-00);
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Waterfall, print maker: Jan Gerard Smits, (mentioned on object), The Hague, 1872, paper, etching, engraving, h 101 mm × w 80 mm
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Loustaunau, Auguste, Goupil & Cie, Un naturaliste amateur, Reproduction of a painting of two biologists in the forest by Auguste Loustaunau, recto - printed, photomechanical print, reproduction, page, photos, photographically illustrated books, Musée pour tous 1877, height 240 mm, width 188 mm, French, maker, manufacturer, 1872 - 1879, paper, Woodbury engraving, 1846-09-12 - 1898-07
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Croquis pris aux Champs Élysées. Honoré Daumier (1808-1879). Lithographs
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Naked boy in the garden. Graetzer, Alfred (1875-1911), draughtsman, cartoonist
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Ebraczka under the roadside; Smokowski, Wincenty (1797-1876); around 1841-1842 (1840-00-00-1845-00-00);
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Lady of the Swans 1879 Félix-Hilaire Buhot French. Lady of the Swans. Félix-Hilaire Buhot (French, Valognes 1847-1898 Paris). 1879. Drypoint; third state of three. Prints
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Campania Caserta Carditello Plazzo Reale, Italy, 20th century, photo, photography, Europe
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Henri Lebasque, Le Fils de l'abbesse; Le Fardeau de la liberté, 1897 Le Fils de l'abbesse; Le Fardeau de la liberté
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Shooting: Setters, William Ward, 1766-1826, British, after George Morland, 1763-1804, British, 1806, Mezzotint, hand-colored, Sheet: 15 x 17 1/2in. (38.1 x 44.5cm)
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Sketchbook C. Halsey. Sketchbook, ca. 1879. Drawing: ink and graphite on cardboard with gilded edges Sketchbook: bound book with drawings in graphite, ink, and colored pencil, Drawing: 6 7/16 x 4 3/16 in. (16.4 x 10.6 cm).   American Art ca. 1879
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Elm of Salernes, France, vintage engraving. Elm of Salernes, France, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1875. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10679749
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Bliżej Kultury Matejko, Jan (1838 1893)
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Piscator, No. 2 1856 John Dillwyn Llewelyn British, Welsh. Piscator, No. 2 270835
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Marches Macerata Matelica Museo Piersanti. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 Views of the museum's collection of late 14th-16th century paintings, as well as the tapestry and maiolica collections. Antiquities: The photos depict roman portraiture busts. Object Notes: Hutzel photo campaign date: March 29, 1983 German-born photographer and scholar Max Hutzel (1911-1988) photographed in Italy from the early 1960s until his death. The result of this project, referred to by Hutzel as Foto Arte Minore, is thorough documentation of art historical development in Italy up to the 18th century, including objects of the Etruscans and the Romans, as well as early Medieval, Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque monuments. Images are organized by geographic region in Italy, then by province, city, site complex and monument.
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Deuxième Cahier d'études. Four drawing examples, numbered 5 to 8, in a green paper cover.
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Fritz Reuter (1810) (1874) Low German writer and poet, Hanne Nuete un de luette Pudel, Eine Vogel, und Menschengeschichte, Platt, Low German, Low German, dialect, language, poet, poem, literary figure, graphic, humour, satire, landscape, night, crescent moon, trees, lake, reeds, young girl, woman, crying, sad, desperate, water mill, mill wheel, Hanne Nuete 8, North Germany, 19th century. century, historical illustration 1868
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Peter Simon, 1750-1810, Frances Isabella Keir Gordon, 1789. Stipple engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige, laid paper.
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Noordelijke Nederlanden, Roghman, Roelant, The mutilated bodies of the brothers De Witt hanging on the seesaw, 1672, Northern Netherlands, Night view of the mutilated bodies of Johan and Cornelis de Witt, hanging on the seesaw, against a background of trees at the Vijverberg, August 20, 1672. On the right in the foreground two figures with a burning torch. Below the representation a verse of eight lines against the De Witt brothers., print, prent, prints, prenten, Frederik Muller Historieplaten, height 394 mm, width 300 mm, Noord-Nederlands, 1627-03-14 - 1692-01-03, print maker, printmaker, 1672 - 1672, third quarter 17th century, paper, papier, etching, etchings, engraving, engraving (printing process), letterpress printing, letterpress
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Ex libris with two fighting horsemen and a coat of arms for art dealer Vincent van Gogh, Ex libris for Vincent van Gogh, print maker: Marius Bauer, (mentioned on object), 1877 - 1911, paper, etching, h 125 mm - w 58 mm
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Shooting: Setters, Samuel William Reynolds, 1773-1835, British, after George Morland, 1763-1804, British, 1799, Color printed mezzotint, Sheet: 12 3/4 x 14 3/4in. (32.4 x 37.5cm)
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Colinet rests during the night; Colinet Resting at Night; Illustrations of Imitation of Eclogue I. Colinet lying by a tree, with his sheep, in a landscape illuminated by the moon.
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