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  • Daily History Picture: Raising the Dead April 22, 2016

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures , trackback

    ghost raising

    Haven’t found the origin for this image: seems to be repeated a lot in the 19Cent

    30 April 2016, Chris from Haunted Ohio Books: The image of raising the dead is by George Cruikshank and is an illustration from Guy Fawkes, William Harrison Ainsworth, 1840. It represents Doctor Dee and Edward Kelley, exhuming the body of Elizabeth Orton

    Nathaniel, meanwhile, this site says the image is from the “The Astrologer of the 19th Century, by ‘Raphael’, 1825“:

    This link has more info about the book:

    I (Beach) have added two more better quality images: one zoomed in, the other entire.

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    raising the dead