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  • Mort-safe, to prevent body-snatching.
  • Caricature of a dissection, Samuel Ireland, 1780-90
  • Watch-house at gates of Newhill's graveyard, Aberdeenshire. From photographs by J. Ritchie, made for his art.
  • Mortsafe in Banchory Devenick graveyard, Aberdeenshire. From photographs by J. Ritchie, made for his art.
  • Watch-house in Banchory Devenick graveyard, Aberdeenshire. From photographs by J. Ritchie, made for his art.
  • Railings used to protect graves from body snatchers
  • Railings used to protect graves from body snatchers
  • Railings used to protect graves from body snatchers
  • Watch-house at Lumphanan graveyard, Aberdeenshire.
  • Door open on Vault in graveyard at Udny, Aberdeenshire.
  • Mortsafes at Kinnernie graveyard, Aberdeenshire.
  • Mortsafe in graveyard at Durris, Aberdeenshire.
  • Mortsafes in Cluny graveyard, Aberdeenshire.
  • Entrance to vault in Leochel old churchyard, Aberdeenshire.
  • Mortsafe used as a cattle trough, Aberdeenshire.
  • Watchhouse at Peterculter graveyard, Aberdeenshire.
  • Door closed on Vault in graveyard at Udny, Aberdeenshire.
  • Mortsafe at Oyne, Aberdeenshire.
  • Mortsafe at Inverurie graveyard, Aberdeenshire.
  • Mortsafe in Skene churchyard, Aberdeenshire.
  • Mortsafe tackle at Invererie, Aberdeenshire.
  • Mortsafe in Towie churchyard, Aberdeenshire.
  • A man walking along a country path is attacked by a bodysnatcher hiding behind a brick wall, who asphyxiates him by thrusting a heart-shaped plaster in his face. Coloured etching by Dickey Fubs, 1828.
  • Bodysnatchers in a church cemetery disturbed by the braying of an ass. Mezzotint, 1771.
  • Bodysnatchers in a church cemetery disturbed by the braying of an ass. Mezzotint, 1771.
  • Two men placing the shrouded corpse which they have just disinterred into a sack while Death, as a nightwatchman holding a lantern, grabs one of the grave-robbers from behind. Coloured drawing by T. Rowlandson, 1775.
  • Two men placing the shrouded corpse which they have just disinterred into a sack while Death, as a nightwatchman holding a lantern, grabs one of the grave-robbers from behind. Coloured drawing by T. Rowlandson, 1775.
  • The dissecting room of an anatomist, with a man thought to be dead waking up and sitting up in his coffin. Drawing, 183- (?).