1825 By: Louis-Léopold Boillyafter
Vantias-Diorama Memento Mori Ruysch
Naked woman with head of a bear
possibly published by John Smith, after Unknown artist, mezzotint, 1680-1690 © National Portrait Gallery, London
Illustration
showing spectators and sight-seers visiting the Paris Morgue, c. 1870s.
The city had built a glass wall in front of a refrigerated room, so
that the visiting public could help to identify unknown corpses, but it
soon became simply a gruesome tourist attraction, drawing as many as
40,000 per day before the morgue closed to the public in 1907."
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