The Black Death: The Plague, 1331-1770

Image Gallery

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The Black Death

English School, The Black Death, 1348.
Source: Scholars Resource: Bridgeman Art Library


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Bring Out Your Dead

A street during the Great Plague in London, 1665, with a death cart and mourners.
Source: Wellcome Library, London


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Milan, 1630

Torture and execution of alleged plague carriers in Milan, 1630.
Source: Wellcome Library, London


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Totentanz (The Dance of Death)

Hans Holbein, Death and the Noblewoman, c. 1538, woodcut.
Source: Scholars Resource: Bridgeman Art Library


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Totentanz (The Dance of Death)

Hans Holbein, Death and the Physician, c. 1538, woodcut.
Source: Scholars Resource: Bridgeman Art Library


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Mourning the Dead

Two hooded figures and a King grieve over a dead person while another masked figure comes to cleanse the room of the plague.
Source: Wellcome Library, London


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Plague Victims

A man with a torch walking alongside a cart of plague victims; a woman is holding a dead child.
Source: Wellcome Library, London


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The Great Pit in Aldgate

Men burying the bodies of plague victims in a pit.
Source: Wellcome Library, London


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Venetian Plague Doctor

Jan Grevenbroeck II, Venetian Doctor during the time of the plague, 19th century watercolor, Museo Correr, Venice
Source: Scholars Resource: Bridgeman Art Library


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Plague Doctor, 1720

Costume d'un Medecin de Lazaret de Marseille en 1720
Source: Wellcome Library, London


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The Plague in Naples

Micco Spadaro, scene of The Piazza Mercatello in Naples during the plague.
Source: Wellcome Library, London


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Dissecting a Plague Victim

Two men, supposedly George Thomson holding the knife, dissecting a body covered with plague marks.
Incense is burning in a bowl to camouflage the stench of the body. Engraving circa 1666.
Source: Wellcome Library, London


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The Plague in Winterthur

The plague in Winterthur in 1328.
Source: Wellcome Library, London


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The Plague in Florence

The plague of Florence in 1348, as described in Boccaccio's Decameron.
Source: Wellcome Library, London


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Banner Image: Pieter Bruegel, The Triumph of Death (detail), c. 1562, oil on panel, 117 x 162 cm, Museo del Prado, Madrid

 

Acknowledgements to Alice M. Phillips for her work editing the original exhibit material and subsequent web design.