Memento mori victorian

We have a fair amount of ' Mourning ' threads here on CWT. Between the main business of war being death and the Victorian tendency to enshrine the dead '...

Antique jewellery such as this are historical limited editions (date of manufacture is 1880). Cherished back then - rare find today. Priced at £2,995. For sale by BJantiquejewellery Ltd.

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Answer (1 of 5): It roughly means “you will be what I am.” It’s often used with full the phrase “Eram quod es, eris quod sum”: “I was what you are, you will be what I am.” It’s been a common gravestone quote, as anyone who looks at a gravestone can understand that the person buried once was alive...

A groundbreaking work which marked the beginning of an awareness of need for food safety oversight.

Imagine 2 young Victorian Women 'stealing their lovers locks' and then creating this eternal 'Love Token' sealing their hearts desire for all time. Wonderful inspiration for Valentines!!! American Love Token with Hair and Watercolor Decoration c. 1840

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Cristian Pezzini on Instagram: "🔴🔴🔴 SOLD Wonderful sculpture in polychrome terracotta with Memento Mori theme. An article of the highest manufacturing quality with the subject of a skeleton holding a mirror in his hands. The mirror is a real mercury mirror from the early 1800s. A unique piece, a unique example created by the artist probably in the 19th century, but even if it were of more recent creation, the proposed object is of such workmanship that it falls within the highly…

Point and shoot. That's how many people think about modern photography. A lot of things we take for granted today developed in the 1800s, including photography. Exposures took days until Louis Daguerre invented his daguerreotype process, which reduced days to minutes and produced clearer, more detailed images. At about the same time, the Victorian Period began with the

Victorian heart mourning ribbons from the estate of Joan Munkacsi Mourning ribbon Abrahan Lincoln mourning ribbon with gem sized portrait Vintage I.O.O.F. mourning ribbon Unidentified soldier in Union Infantry Seargant's uniform and black mourning ribbon. Daguerreotype........Woman with mourning ribbons on her wrists. Mourning Ribbon (a new example?) Little girl in dress edged in black wearing a mourning ribbon. (all photos from Pinterest)

20 Memento Mori Photos That Will Make You Perceive Death Differently - Atchuup! - Cool Stories Daily

Despite the current ubiquity of cameras, we rarely pause in our flurry of social media sharing to document one of the most significant events in all our lives: death.

A look at Victorian methods for creating human hair jewelry and mementos.

It’s a little known fact that more of the City of London’s churches were demolished during peacetime than were destroyed during the Blitz. As London expanded, the population of the Squ…

7 Ways of Looking at the Memento Mori, Art History’s Spookiest—and Most Misunderstood—Genre | Artnet News