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@chriswoodyard.bsky.socialSep 13, 2026, 12:34 PM

#TheVictorianBookoftheDead Mrs Payne, John Edgar Williams, 1885. She wears a frill-edged widow's cap and veil, what appears to be a hair locket, black earrings and bracelets (jet?) and her dress has cuffs and collar of white. She holds a black fan.
Barnstaple Town Council at Barnstaple Guildhall.

Painting of an older lady in a black dress with white collar and cuffs, seated in a chair. She wears a fluffy white widow's cap with sheer veil. She wears a locket necklace, black earrings, and bracelets. She holds a black fan.
@chriswoodyard.bsky.socialSep 13, 2026, 12:25 PM

#SpookySunday Le château de la mort, Jean Danguy 1885
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Ghostly winged figure of Death, holding aloft a scythe in one hand, and an hour-glass in the other, hovering above a landscape with trees. Lithograph, Le château de la mort, Jean Danguy, 1885
@chriswoodyard.bsky.socialSep 12, 2026, 12:29 PM

#TheVictorianBookoftheDead Workhouse coffin and bier used for pauper burials, held at King John's Hunting Lodge, Axbridge. The article does not say if the metal coffin below is a lead coffin liner or a separate coffin.
www.britainexpress.com/attractions....

Crude wooden coffin with metal handles sitting on a wooden hand-carried bier. There is an open metal coffin or coffin liner sitting below the bier, which is sitting on modern metal legs.
@chriswoodyard.bsky.socialSep 12, 2026, 12:22 PM

#TheVictorianBookoftheDead Carved onyx mourning pendant set with forget-me-not pearls on a necklace of faceted onyx beads, with hairwork locket on reverse. c. 1870s

Carved onyx mourning pendant set with forget-me-not pearls on a necklace of faceted onyx beads. Back of onyx mourning pendant with beveled edge, set with a gold-framed, glassed locket containing a plait of light-colored hair.
@chriswoodyard.bsky.socialSep 10, 2026, 3:37 PM

#TheVictorianBookoftheDead 1904 mourning bonnet in shirred and knotted crape [I use the most common Victorian/Edwardian spelling for the mourning fabric] with a tiny white ruche, and long veil. The widow's peak makes this "Marie Stuart" style.
collections.musee-mccord-stewart.ca/en/objects/4...

Mourning bonnet with a long black veil, a ribbon ties it under the chin. Close-up of mourning bonnet with knotted and pleated/shirred crape detail coming to a widow's peak with a narrow white edging. Close-up of mourning bonnet with knotted and pleated/shirred crape detail coming to a widow's peak with a narrow white edging.
@chriswoodyard.bsky.socialSep 10, 2026, 3:05 PM

#TheVictorianBookoftheDead Hand, wreath, and posy mourning brooch in black glass. These continued to be made in the 20th century, of various materials like gutta percha, and are difficult to date. Perhaps 1870s.
collectie.museumrotterdam.nl/detail.php?n...

Black mourning brooch showing a hand in a fancy pleated cuff holding a posy and a floral wreath.
@chriswoodyard.bsky.socialSep 10, 2026, 2:55 PM

#TheVictorianBookoftheDead Second mourning dress in satin and beaded charmeuse by Charlotte Duclos, c. 1910-1912. The beading is dull black, while the satin is somewhat matte, indicating that this was worn by one not long out of first mourning.
www.metmuseum.org/collection/t...

Black satin dress with beaded chiffon overdress, beaded in a netting pattern over the shoulders and sleeves. The dress has a low square neckline and a slight train. Reverse of black satin dress with beaded chiffon overdress, beaded in a netting pattern over the shoulders and sleeves. The dress has a V neckline and a slight train. Detail of a black chiffon train heavily beaded with dull black beads.
@chriswoodyard.bsky.socialSep 8, 2026, 11:54 AM

#TheVictorianBookoftheDead A smocked wool mourning dress worn by 10-year-old Maud Cunliffe for her sister Florence, 1905.
www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/object/13627...

Black dress with smocked bodice and cuffs, with a flounced collar and hem ruffle, edged with openwork. 10-year-old girl's dress for mourning. Back view of black dress with smocked bodice and cuffs, with a flounced collar and hem ruffle, edged with openwork. 10-year-old girl's dress for mourning.
@chriswoodyard.bsky.socialSep 8, 2026, 11:50 AM

#TheVictorianBookoftheDead What a difference a century makes. Trade cards for:
Richard Rattenbury, Undertaker, c. 1810 "Funerals performed at any distance."
www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
J.D. Thomas, Funeral Director, McComb, Ohio, 1911
digital.lib.miamioh.edu/digital/coll...

Trade card for Rd. Rattenbury, Undertaker, No. 2, Exeter Street, Sloane Street, Chelsea, Funerals performed at any distance. Bottom of card shows a funeral procession led by 2 mutes, then a hearse drawn by four horses and two funeral carriages coming out of a gate in front of a stately home. Trade card for J.D. Thomas, Funeral Director, McComb, Ohio, with four photographs of Show Room, Mr. Thomas, himself, Car & Cab Room, Office.
@chriswoodyard.bsky.socialSep 7, 2026, 12:47 PM

#TheVictorianBookoftheDead #LaborDay
Mortuary Professions for Ladies: 1889-1910. Digging graves, making burial clothing, renting smelling salts...
thevictorianbookofthedead.wordpress.com/2018/09/03/m...

A woman in a dress with sleeves rolled up, stands in a hole in the ground in a cemetery next to several picks. There are monuments and bushes in the background. She is measuring to dig a grave.
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@chriswoodyard.bsky.socialSep 7, 2026, 12:40 PM

On this #LaborDay falling on #MementoMoriMonday spare a thought for hard-working Death, who never gets a day off.
Death, Maximilian Pirner, National Gallery Prague
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A skeletal figure of death draped in a shredded black shroud, sharpens a scythe against a stormy sky.
@chriswoodyard.bsky.socialSep 6, 2026, 2:55 PM

T is for Tear Bottle, an entry in A is for Arsenic: An ABC of Victorian Death brilliantly illustrated by @landisblair.bsky.social Available worldwide
Spoiler alert: If you believe that tear bottles were an actual Victorian mourning practice, you will be disappointed.
#TheVictorianBookoftheDead

Black and white illustration of a plinth-like tomb with a laurel wreath carved on it. A winged angel is slumped over the tomb, a small bottle in one hand, with a drop falling from it. An illustration by Landis Blair for the entry forTear Bottle from A is for Arsenic: An ABC of Victorian Death, Chris Woodyard
@chriswoodyard.bsky.socialSep 5, 2026, 4:02 PM

#TheVictorianBookoftheDead Mourning earrings and brooch of melanite garnet and pearls framing hairwork lockets. The earrings are inscribed "J. Jackson Obt Nov. 16th-1824 Aged 62 Yrs."; the brooch is engraved: “W.A. Warner Obt Dec. 21st 1830 Æ 34 Yrs[,]”
www.masshist.org/database/2338

@chriswoodyard.bsky.socialSep 5, 2026, 3:55 PM

#TheVictorianBookoftheDead Mourning ring with hairwork locket framed in jet and pearls, for Edward Blake, 1824. Inscribed "E Blake / Obt Ap'l. 24 AE / 81."
www.mfa.org/collections/...

@chriswoodyard.bsky.socialSep 3, 2026, 1:17 PM

#TheVictorianBookoftheDead Two memorial cards for the 700 passengers (the number was never accurately known) who died on 3 September 1878 when the British passenger paddle steamer was struck by a collier and sank in the Thames. The first card was printed on the reverse.
www.rmg.co.uk/collections/...

@chriswoodyard.bsky.socialSep 3, 2026, 1:10 PM

#Onthisday, 1878 the British passenger paddle steamer Princess Alice was returning to Swan Pier when she was struck by a collier and sank. Up to 700 people died in the disaster. The image shows the burial of the unknown dead at Woolwich Cemetery.
#TheVictorianBookoftheDead