Antique Death

Two images on one sheet depicting a Chinese garden and Festival of the Death in Macao. Originates from 'Voyages à Pekin, Manille et l'Ile-de-France faits dans l'intervalle des années...

The full published caption reads: “So Hate That is Brother to Death Was in the Heart of Craftainy the Harper for Cormac Conjoingias.”

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Contains first appearances by Poe: The Mask Of The Red Death, Appendix of Autographs, To One Departed, Life in Death, A few Words about Brainard, Poetry of Ru...

Regency Mahogany 4 drawer chest with Trafalgar oval brass Handles celebrating The Battle Victory & mourning Nelsons death Reads:Trafalgar sacred to Nelson Figured Mahogany top w...

Antique Tibetan wooden Buddhist Mahakala mask (Shaman Exorcism Mask Yama God of Death) with stand. Age: Tibet, 19th Century Size of mask only: Height 33.8 C.M. / Width 25.5 C.M. / T...

This piece features pages for birth, death, and wedding records in addition to the original marriage certificate and 1944 obituary for Alice Ellwood, daughter of Hiram and Sarah Ellw...

Beatrice Portinari, called Bice, married to de 'Bardi (Florence, 1265/66 - Florence, June 19, 1290), is, according to some literary critics, the woman that Dante transfigures into th...

Such examples are rare and increasingly difficult to locate. NOTE:* Upon the death of Admiral Lord Nelson in 1805 there were a variety of commemorative/souvenir pieces crafted to ...

Dominating the composition is the great circular Wheel of Life, dramatically grasped by the formidable figure of Yama, the Lord of Death. His presence surrounding the wheel signifies...

Later he moved to France and concentrated on landscape painting before moving back to his home town of Moniaive in Dumfriesshire two years before his death. He exhibited at the RSA A...

A later edition, in excellent condition, published in the mid-20th Century after the Artist's death. Image dimension cm.29x23. A magnificent and tender graphic work from Renoir’s l...

The label states that this unsigned work was from Maynard Dixon’s personal collection and was left to Edith Hamlin Dixon following his death in 1946. An additional handwritten label ...

The verso of this work bears an inscription, stating that the painting was a gift for Blakelock’s youngest child, Douglas, and Douglas’s wife, Harriet, in celebration of their weddin...

Gefallener Reiter (Fallen Rider) – a dramatic composition balancing landscape with themes of death and transience. Amor, Tod und Jenseits (Love, Death and the Beyond) – an enigmatic ...

Gonin worked for the House of Savoy even after the death of Carlo Alberto, albeit in a less continuous manner.

It depicts George V, King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 until his death in 1936. "A Toby Jug, sometimes referred to as a Fil...

In fact, King Charles I regularly sought his advice and selected Juxon to offer him his last rites on the scaffold before his death in 1649.

Although traditionally credited to Matthäus Merian the Elder, who developed the celebrated series of European topographical publications bearing his name, it was published after his ...

Upon Antoninus Pius’ death in 161 AD, Marcus Aurelius ascended to the throne, ruling jointly with Lucius Verus.

A magnificent simultaneous depiction of life and death, serving as an allegory for the seasonal cycle.

Following his premature death in 1865, much of his collection was bequeathed to the Academy.

Following Parisian changes, they also started to produce enamelled and architectural ceramics, and glazed ceramics, in a green watercolour. After the death of his father in 1898 Char...

Part of the first wave of Austrian Modernism, he was swept away by the Viennese fascination with the tension between Life and Death (known in the works of Freud and his later interpr...

Historical Context John Brewer (1764–1816) was the elder of two brothers, both the sons of artists, who painted at Derby; he joined the factory in 1795 and worked there until his dea...

The painting in question depicts an intense portrait of Saint Sebastian, shown full-length and immortalized at the moment of his martyrdom, following the death sentence imposed on hi...

Representations of Eros Thanatos consequently encompass several complementary ideas: mourning for the deceased, death as eternal sleep, the continuation of existence in the afterlife...

The piece reflects the distinctive production of Grès d’Art Méténier, founded around 1917 by Gilbert Méténier and his father Louis. After his father’s death in 1922, Gilbert expanded...

In later years, William went into partnership with his son and traded as ‘Godwin & Co’, a name that would become reputable until long after William’s death in 1925.

Head workmaster to Fabergé from the death of Michael Perchin in 1903, with responsibility for the Imperial Easter eggs Enamel: Translucent red over an engine turned ground Decoration...

He was born after the death of his father, Osiris, and is therefore represented as a vulnerable child whom his mother, the goddess Isis, was forced to conceal among the marshes of th...

In later years, William went into partnership with his son and traded as ‘Godwin & Co’, a name that would become reputable until long after William’s death in 1925.

In later years, William went into partnership with his son and traded as ‘Godwin & Co’, a name that would become reputable until long after William’s death in 1925.

His Venetian paintings continue to appear at auction, including documented works dated 1882, 1883, 1884, and 1885. His early death makes surviving examples comparatively scarce.

He remained on Sylt until his death in 1964, and his paintings continue to be associated with the island's artistic heritage.

These are the children of Night, the twins Hypnos and Thanatos, who, according to classical mythology, are the divine personifications of Sleep and peaceful Death (hence the famous L...

In later years, William went into partnership with his son and traded as ‘Godwin & Co’, a name that would become reputable until long after William’s death in 1925.

With its associations with sleep, intoxication, dreams, and death, the poppy became a potent motif in late nineteenth-century art and design.

Christina became Queen of Sweden in 1632, following the death of her father, King Gustav II Adolf, and reigned until 1654.

Funerary hatchments were commissioned to commemorate the death of members of the armigerous gentry and nobility.

Seyssaud was born in Marseille in 1867 and trained at the École des Beaux-Arts there from 1879, moving after his father's death to the École des Beaux-Arts in Avignon under Pierre Gr...

The Daum brothers quickly became major figures of the Art Nouveau movement—rivaling the renowned designer Émile Gallé—and established themselves as leaders in the field of decorative...

In the present example, following with great similarity the della Porta model, Christ is shown as the Christus patiens: the suffering Savior after death. His head inclines toward the...

This characteristic feature is famously associated with the Death’s-Head Hawk Moths of the genus Acherontia, among the most recognizable moths in European natural history.

Buffon published thirty-six quarto volumes of his Histoire Naturelle during his lifetime, with additional volumes based on his notes and further research being published in the two d...

In later years, William went into partnership with his son and traded as ‘Godwin & Co’, a name that would become reputable until long after William’s death in 1925.

The Bhavachakra, meaning “Wheel of Existence” or “Wheel of Becoming,” illustrates the Buddhist understanding of samsara—the continuous cycle of birth, death and rebirth. Traditionall...

Ernest Cox was a Nottingham-based landscape painter whose relatively short career ended with his death in 1938. He exhibited extensively at Nottingham Museum and Art Gallery, making ...

Dashwood retained ownership of the surrounding estate and the contents of the house, most of which he sold; after his death, the house was restored at the expense of his son, the 11t...

Conrad Sörgel von Sorgenthal (1735 Nuremberg - 1805 Vienna) From 1784 until his death he headed the Viennese porcelain manufactory, which under his leadership enjoyed great economic ...

He died in Bouzareah, near Algiers in 1873 at the age of 66. According to the death certificate of his aunt Marie Thérèse Charon, the artist attached to his surname the nickname tha...

Buffon’s monumental Histoire Naturelle transformed European understanding of zoology and remained so influential that revised and illustrated editions continued to appear long after ...

He laments that historians often omit exact dates of birth, death, or accessions to the throne, which "causes so much obscurity and so many confusions in ancient history."

In later years, William went into partnership with his son and traded as ‘Godwin & Co’, a name that would become reputable until long after William’s death in 1925.

Church historians later wrote that the young girl went to her death with the joy of a bride walking to her wedding.

* This period of history saw the co-reign of King William III and Queen Mary II from 1689 until her death in 1694. Mary was the princess royal and daughter of Charles I and William...

She moved with her family to Washington DC in 1876 when she was age fourteen and remained a resident of the city until her death in 1952. At the age of fifty, she married for the fi...

Essay: This drawing belongs to the long European tradition of the memento mori, an image intended to remind the viewer of the inevitability of death and the transience of earthly lif...

The business, located at 5 rue de Thorigny in Paris (the Salé Mansion, now the Picasso Museum), was continued by Madame Vian after her husband’s death in 1905.

Part of the first wave of Austrian Modernism, he was swept away by the Viennese fascination with the tension between Life and Death (known in the works of Freud and his later interpr...

Part of the first wave of Austrian Modernism, he was swept away by the Viennese fascination with the tension between Life and Death (known in the works of Freud and his later interpr...