EditorialThe morgue or public charnel house of Paris on a bank of the Seine. A woman turns in horror from a corpse, an officer of the guards contemplates a female cadaver, and an attendant smokes a pipe. Handcoloured aquatint engraving after an illustration cre...
EditorialNorth-east view of the back of the original altar of St. Bartholomew the Greater, built 1102. Door to charnel house at right. Copperplate engraving drawn and etched by John Thomas Smith from his Topography of London, 1811.
EditorialThe cemetery of Douaumont . In February 1916, the Germans took the 19th century Fort of Douaumont; it was recaptured by the French in October. In 1932 the Charnel house was built in memory of the fierce fighting. It contains the remains of 400....
EditorialNorth-east view of the back of the original altar of St. Bartholomew the Greater, built 1102. Door to charnel house at right. Copperplate engraving drawn and etched by John Thomas Smith from his Topography of London, 1811.
EditorialThe morgue or public charnel house of Paris on a bank of the Seine. A woman turns in horror from a corpse, an officer of the guards contemplates a female cadaver, and an attendant smokes a pipe. Handcoloured aquatint engraving after an illustration cre...
EditorialImperial eagle with two heads of Turks in its claws; on the outer wall of the charnel-house in Tulln, Lower Austria. During the 16th and 17th centuries Eastern Austria was constantly threatened by Turkish armies, hence the defiant memento of imperial v...
EditorialCharnel house of Douaumont. In February 1916, the Germans took the 19th century Fort of Douaumont; it was recaptured by the French in October. In 1932 the Charnel house was built in memory of the fierce fighting. It contains the remains of 400.000 sold...