Beyond the Veil: The Victorian Obsession With Death and Mourning Publisher / Delmonico Books Emerging from a tumultuous background

Emerging from a tumultuous background of political and cultural critique

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The Love Letter (Rijksmuseum)

featuring fantastic images of flora and fauna adapted from John Derian Picture Book II

Beyond the Veil: The Victorian Obsession With Death and Mourning Publisher / Delmonico Books Emerging from a tumultuous backgroundA visual history of mourning and of the culture surrounding the commemoration of death. Focusing on the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and travelling from Victorian England across to the US, the book is a visual tour through this curious world, charting the often peculiar and at times macabre ways of how the living memorialise the dead. The visual history of how we deal with death the grief and mourning, the funerals, symbols and ceremonies