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An exhumed mummy in St. Stephen's Crypt in Westminster. Chalk lithograph by J. Basire after George Scharf, 1852.

The west dining hall, Greenwich, in the crypt below the Painted Hall, full of Pensioners eating dinner. Coloured lithograph by W. Bligh Barker after himself.

Juliet, kneeling between the bodies of Romeo and Paris in the burial crypt of the Capulets, is about to stab herself in the chest with a dagger while a group of torch-carrying soldiers arrives in the background. Etching.

Les Invalides, Paris: entrance to the crypt of Napoleon's tomb. Wood engraving.

Teaching Hospital School, Salerno, Italy: part of the Crypt of St. Maria. Pen and ink drawing by [J.N.T.].

The church of Saint Peter-in-the-East, Oxford: section of the chancel and plan of the crypt. Line engraving by J. Basire, 1835, after G. Gwilt, 1818.

Les Invalides, Paris: the sarcophagus in the crypt of the tomb of Napoleon. Wood engraving.

St. Peter-in-the-East, Oxford: crypt showing bones and skulls. Coloured aquatint by J. Bluck, 1813, after F. Nash.

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Les Invalides, Paris: entrance to the crypt of Napoleon's tomb. Wood engraving.

The church of Saint Peter-in-the-East, Oxford: section of the chancel and plan of the crypt. Line engraving by J. Basire, 1835, after G. Gwilt, 1818.

St. Peter-in-the-East, Oxford: crypt showing bones and skulls. Coloured aquatint by J. Bluck, 1813, after F. Nash.

The west dining hall, Greenwich, in the crypt below the Painted Hall, full of Pensioners eating dinner. Coloured lithograph by W. Bligh Barker after himself.

Teaching Hospital School, Salerno, Italy: part of the Crypt of St. Maria. Pen and ink drawing by [J.N.T.].