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Image Not Available for A display of bones and skulls.
A display of bones and skulls.
Image Not Available for A display of bones and skulls.

A display of bones and skulls.

Creator Atlantic Photo
Press Agency Schostal Press Agency
Dateunknown
Mediumgelatin silver print
Credit LineAnonymous Gift, 2008
Object number2008/2945
Category
LocationNot currently on display

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Image Not Available for Rather morbid, this stall, for it shows a display of bones and skins, and the smell is not too good either. The unaccustomed purchaser gets rather a shock, coming across a stall of grinning skulls, but they say that skulls are very effective both as charm
Rather morbid, this stall, for it shows a display of bones and skins, and the smell is not too good either. The unaccustomed purchaser gets rather a shock, coming across a stall of grinning skulls, but they say that skulls are very effective both as charm
Emil Otto Hoppé
1930s
Photograph
Image Not Available for A horrible array of skulls, bones, the heads and beaks of dead birds, but together with herbs and roots they are said to be the most effective for curing ills of all kinds.
A horrible array of skulls, bones, the heads and beaks of dead birds, but together with herbs and roots they are said to be the most effective for curing ills of all kinds.
Emil Otto Hoppé
1930s
Photograph
Skulls and bones on ground
Skulls and bones on ground
Henryk Ross
1940-1944
Photograph
Skulls and bones on ground
Skulls and bones on ground
Henryk Ross
1940-1944
Photograph
Skull on pile of bones
Skull on pile of bones
Henryk Ross
1940-1944
Photograph
Image Not Available for Elephant Skull Plate IX (Bones have great variety in section and subtle transition of one shape into another)
Elephant Skull Plate IX (Bones have great variety in section and subtle transition of one shape into another)
Henry Moore
1970
Print
Image Not Available for Elephant Skull Plate X (Bones have marvellous structural strength and hard tenseness of form)
Elephant Skull Plate X (Bones have marvellous structural strength and hard tenseness of form)
Henry Moore
1970
Print
Image Not Available for In an apse the bones are kept of the executed who are refused a grave.
In an apse the bones are kept of the executed who are refused a grave.
Presse-Photo
1930s
Photograph
Image Not Available for Elephant Skull Plate XIV (Though still only line-drawing, I wanted to show the skull's massiveness)
Elephant Skull Plate XIV (Though still only line-drawing, I wanted to show the skull's massiveness)
Henry Moore
1970
Print
Image Not Available for Elephant Skull Plate XIII (Here I was searching for the skull's internal structure)
Elephant Skull Plate XIII (Here I was searching for the skull's internal structure)
Henry Moore
1970
Print
Image Not Available for A black man with a bone through his nose, and an alarm clock around his neck.
A black man with a bone through his nose, and an alarm clock around his neck.
Atlantic Photo
unknown
Photograph
Image Not Available for Mute witnesses of the past. Excavation crews discover numerous skulls and skeletons at the Roman Forum in Rome, Italy.
Mute witnesses of the past. Excavation crews discover numerous skulls and skeletons at the Roman Forum in Rome, Italy.
Walter/Lueders Süssmann
1930s
Photograph
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