Roman cinerary urns, a large ornate funeral vase with genius and torch surrounded by more simple urns. Handcolored copperplate engraving from G. T. Wilhelm's "Encyclopedia of Natural History: Mankind," Augsburg, 1804. Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm (1758-1811) was a Bavarian clergyman and naturalist known as the German Buffon.

---

Size: 3540px × 6406px
Photo credit: © Florilegius / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: 18th, century, cinerary, copperplate, encyclopedia, engraving, funeral, genius, gottlieb, hand-colored, history, mankind, manners, natural, naturgeschichte, ornate, roman, tobias, torch, unterhaltungen, urn, vase, wilhelm