Chris Woodyardさんのイラストまとめ

#DíadeLosAngelitos A white-draped Mexican street-car hearse used for children, Mexico City, 1912
#TheVictorianBookoftheDead

#Halloweencostume inspiration for Foodies.
Lady-fingers. Pumpkin. Scallion. Potato.
All V&A collection

Executed #OTD in 1915, nurse Edith Cavell, who cared for German and Allied soldiers alike. Her murder inspired many grim images.
The Red Cross nurse holding German and British flags is said to be an image of Cavell.
https://t.co/uNZl4PK31Y
#TheVictorianBookoftheDead

#TheVictorianBookoftheDead "Mary Stuart" mourning bonnets with ruche, c. 1897 and c. 1911. The illustration shows nun's veiling; the extant example's veil is crape.

https://t.co/84tUKhaYbX

#TheVictorianBookoftheDead "Lost," W.J. Perry, engraved by C.M. Jenkin, 1871-72.

#TheVIctorianBookoftheDead #LaborDayWeekend The Consumptive Seamstress
from "How to Keep Well," by Dr. Evans, 1917
And The Wretched Sewing Girl, c. 1860

#TheVictorianBookoftheDead What the Cemetery Superintendent Sees: 1896: Flower Thieves, Grave Charms, Grief Arithmetically Measured, Repentance and Black Stockings, Is the Grave Secure?
https://t.co/hboDanbb6l

#TheVIctorianBookoftheDead Hearse feathers. Variations among hearse plumes.
1867 funeral feather tray or hearse plumes
1870 hearse plume
Belgian mourning plume.
Horsehair hearse plume
https://t.co/h3Px0kNfMr
https://t.co/JyTRqAjamo

For #ForteanFriday, fearing the Reaper: A fight to the death--with Death. Plus other visits from the hooded King of Terrors.
https://t.co/IF42oFG7xA
#TheVictorianBookoftheDead #Death #GrimReaper

#TheVIctorianBookoftheDead 1881
A young wife lost her husband, who was about 70 years old.
“But how did you come to marry a man of that age?” asked her friend.
“Why,” said the young widow, “you see, I only had the choice between two old men, and, of course, I took the oldest.”