- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Watercolour painting showing one of a number of ideas regarding death and the afterlife
- Long description
- Large watercolour painting by Alfred Robinson showing one of a number of ideas regarding death and the afterlife, presumed to have been made to illustrate a lecture or publication by E. B. Tylor
- Geographical reference
- Cultural groups
- English
- Person
- Maker Alfred Robinson (signed)
- Field collector Edward Burnett Tylor
- PRM source Edward Burnett Tylor
- Date / Period
- Date made: Circa 1888-1898
- Date collected
- By 1917
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1917 Found unentered: 01/1944
- Materials and processes
- Material Paper Plant, Material Pigment, Process Painted, Process Drawn
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1944.1.69
- Research and responses
This is a large watercolour painting by Alfred Robinson showing (according to the accession entry) one of a number of ideas regarding death and the afterlife, presumed to have been made to illustrate either a lecture (or lectures) or, more likely, a publication by E. B. Tylor. [PG 27/01/2014]
Search terms: Picture and Graphic Art, Death, Painting, Drawing