Dead Collection (#35)

Lamentation over Christ, early 16th century. Artist: Gerard David
Lamentation over Christ, early 16th century. The Virgin Mary kisses the head of the dead Christ whose forehead shows the wounds inflicted by the crown of thorns

The Dead Christ Supported by Angels, 1465-1470. Artist: Giovanni Bellini
The Dead Christ Supported by Angels, 1465-1470. From the National Gallery, London

The Three Maries ( The Dead Christ Mourned ), c1604. Artist: Annibale Carracci
The Three Maries ( The Dead Christ Mourned ), c1604. The Virgin Mary, lamenting, holds the body of the dead Christ in her lap

Litttle Red Riding Hood, 19th century. The woodcutter has killed the wolf with his axe

Removal of victims at Galata, 1895. Bodies are piled onto a cart in the Galata district of Istanbul in Turkey. Scene from the Massacres of Armenia card series produced by the chocolate factory at

Casualties of the Paris Commune, 1871. Rows of dead bodies laid out. During the bloody suppression of the Paris Commune in May 1871 an unkown number of Parisians, possibly as many as 30, 000

Descent from the Cross, 16th century. Artist: Jacopo Bassano il vecchio
Descent from the Cross, 16th century. From the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon, Portugal

Triptych of Santa Clara, 1486. Artist: Mestre Hilarius
Triptych of Santa Clara, 1486. The panels depict Christ praying on the Mount of Olives, St Clare and the Miracle of the Safekeeping and the Lamentation of Christ

Still Life, 19th century

The Beheading of John the Baptist, c1630. The executioner holds up St Johns bleeding head for Salome to receive on a golden platter. From a Private collection

Aftermath of a mining accident, Montceau-les-Mines, France, 1895. Pit-head scene showing the reactions of friends and relatives as victims of a fire-damp (mainly Methane)

Coal mining accident, Courrieres Mines, Pas-de-Calais, France, 1906. Anxious friends and relatives wait at the pit-head while bodies of the victims who died when the roof fell in are brought to

Discovery of a woolly mammoth, 1779 (c1870). The discovery of a specimen of the prehistoric elephant, approximately 9ft high and 16ft long, preserved frozen in a block of ice in Siberia

Burying victims of the Plague of London at night in multiple graves, 1665. Two of the men are smoking pipes, partly to combat the stench of the corpses

Saul and the Witch of Endor, 1792. Scene from the Bible (1 Samuel 28). Saul tries to contact dead Samuel through the witch

The Great Western Railway disaster at Thorpe near Norwich, 10 September 1874. Front page illustration taken from the Illustrated London News, (Vol 65, 19 September, 1874)

Detail from the Descent from the Cross. North German School, 1435-1440
Details from the Descent from the Cross. North German School, 1435-1440. Kumla Church, Sweden

Painting of Napoleon at the battle of Rivoli, 18th century
Painting of Napoleon at the battle of Rivoli on the 18th of Janury 1797, in the Gallery of Battles in Versailles, 18th century

Skull of a dead Rain-Maker from New Ireland
Skull of a dead Rain-Maker, with the features moulded and decorated. The skull is kept by a living rain-maker and is used in rain-making ceremonies

The Lamentation over Christ with a Carmelite Monk, c1510. Artist: Giovanni Battista Cima da Conegliano
The Lamentation over Christ with a Carmelite Monk, c1510. Found in the collection of the State A Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

A Butcher Shop, 1630s. Artist: Frans Snyders
A Butcher Shop, 1630s. Snyders, Frans (1579-1657). Found in the collection of the State A. Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

Still life with a Swan, 1640s. Artist: Frans Snyders
Still life with a Swan, 1640s. Snyders, Frans (1579-1657). Found in the collection of the State A. Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

Portrait of Queen Marie Antoinette of France, 1775. Artist: Jean-Baptiste Andre Gautier d Agoty
Portrait of Queen Marie Antoinette of France, 1775. The daughter of Francis I and Maria Theresa of Austria, Marie Antoinette (1755-1793) married the French Dauphin (the future King Louis XVI)

Vsevolod Meyerhold, Russian actor, theatre director and producer, 1930s. Meyerhold (1874-1930) established his own theatre in Moscow in 1922

Etruscan tomb painting of a fury carrying away a dead persons soul, 6th century BC
Etruscan tomb painting of a fury carrying away a dead persons soul, from Caere, from the Louvres collection, 6th century BC

Babylonian boundary-stone, bearing the symbols of the Gods on the stone, representing Gods who protect the deed

Egyptian relief showing a dead woman and Hathor: the dead woman and her soul-bird (Ba) receive refreshment from Hathor in the Sycamore tree

Bronze statuette of Osiris
A bronze Egyptian statuette of Osiris as ruler of the Kingdom of the Dead

Egyptian funerary slab of Meresimen, the singer of Amun. She adores Osiris, judge of the dead, and the four sons of Horus (the canopic gods)

Detail from a Book of the Dead papyrus, Egyptian Museum, Cairo. The hippopotamus goddess of childbirth Taweret is visible in the top left

Barnabe Brisson, 16th century French philologist and jurist. Brisson (1531-1591) became President of the Parliament (Parlement) of Paris in 1588

The Duke of Wellington at the taking of Ciudad Rodrigo, Spain, Peninsular War, 1812 (c1818). Artist: William Heath
The Duke of Wellington at the taking of Ciudad Rodrigo, Spain, Peninsular War, 1812 (c1818). The French tricolour is pulled down and the Union Jack run up the flagpole in its place

The Shootings of May 3rd 1808, 1814. Artist: Francisco Goya
The Shootings of May 3rd 1808, 1814. Painted in 1814 for King Ferdinand VII of Spain, this is a forceful, sobering condemnation of the horrors of war

Grave of a Zulu chief, 1888. The body is in a sitting position in a stone-lined underground chamber. From History of Mankind by Friedrich Ratzel. (Leipzig, 1888)

Prison stockade at Andersonville, Georgia, American Civil War, 1861-1865. During the summer of 1864 32, 899 Union (northern) prisoners were confined here

The Plague Pit, 1855. Artist: John Franklin
The Plague Pit, 1855. Consigning bodies of victims of the plague to a communal grave during the Plague of London, 1665. From Old Saint Pauls by W Harrison Ainsworth

Gladiators in the Roman arena. Spectators are giving the thumbs down, signalling the victor not to spare his defeated adversary. Print after Jean-Leon Gerome

Ancient Egyptian mummy in wrappings. From the Vatican Museum

The death of Archimedes at the capture of Syracuse by the Romans, 212 BC (late 19th century). Born in Syracuse on the island of Sicily

To the Victors!, World War I, 1917-1918. British troops man-handling a captured German Field Gun as they remove it from its position

Henry of Lorraine, 3rd Duc de Guise, 16th century French soldier and statesman, mid 19th century. Henry of Lorraine (1550-1588) was one of the instigators of the St Bartholemews Day Massacre

Death of Henri, Vicomte de Turenne, French soldier, 1675 (c1871-1940). Artist: Maurice Leloir
Death of Henri, Vicomte de Turenne, French soldier, 1675 (c1871-1940). Officers of Marshal Turennes (1611-1675) army lamenting over his body after he was killed while reconnoitring at Sasbach in

St Denis, Patron Saint of France, 1826. St Denis, also known as Denys or Dionysius (dc258) was the first bishop of Paris. Persecuted under the Roman Emperor Valerian (c193-260)

The Death of Caesar, 44 BC (c1780-1832). Artist: Guillaume Lethiere
The Death of Caesar, 44 BC (c1780-1832). The body of the murdered Julius Caesars (100-44BC) displayed to the crowd outside the Senate in Rome

Scenes from the First Crusade, 1096-1099 (c1490). Artist: Sebastian Marmoret
Scenes from the First Crusade, 1096-1099 (c1490). In the foreground of the main image, mounted knights unhorsed and killed in a melee of hand-to-hand fighting with (left)

Napoleon on the Field of the Battle of Eylau, 9th February 1807 (1808). Artist: Antoine-Jean Gros
Napoleon on the Field of the Battle of Eylau, 9th February 1807 (1808). The Battle of Eylau was one of the major engagements of the War of the Third Coalition

Anne Boleyn, second wife of Henry VIII, c1520-1536. Anne (c1504-1536) married Henry in 1533. She provided Henry with a daughter, the future Elizabeth I (1533-1603), but not the male heir he desired

Montezuma II, last Aztec emperor, 1520. The bodies of Montezuma (1466-1520) and one of his chiefs thrown into a canal after their murder by Spanish conquistadors under Cortes

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