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  • Saint Cecilia: she enables the bodies of Christian martyrs to be buried. Engraving by G. Fabbri after D.M. Fratta after G. Cavedone.
  • Jesus Christ raises Lazarus from his tomb. Coloured woodcut, ca. 1510.
  • Christ is laid into a tomb. Lithograph by M. Fanoli after E.R. Wehnert, 1849.
  • Boer War: the grave of men of the Naval Brigade who were killed in the battle of Graspan. Halftone, c. 1899, after H. E. Miles.
  • People decorating the graves of their relatives in a cemetery in Italy for the celebration of All Souls. Gouache painting by Reginald Cleaver.
  • Report to Her Majesty's principal secretary of state for the Home Department from the Poor Law Commissioners, on an inquiry into the sanitary condition of the labouring population of Great Britain; with appendices. Presented to both Houses of Parliament, by command of Her Majesty, July, 1842 / [by Edwin Chadwick].
  • Burying the dead during the plague of 1665. Etching by C. Grignion after S. Wale.
  • The Assumption of the Virgin Mary. Engraving by S. Scafa.
  • The resurrected Christ rises over terrified soldiers. Engraving after A. Dürer, 1512.
  • The funeral of Mrs Susannah Wesley at Bunhill Fields, the Methodist cemetery: a key to the identities of the mourners. Etching.
  • Boer War: the grave of those killed at Bronkhuis Spruit, with men standing round. Line engraving, c. 1901.
  • Crimean War: Florence Nightingale and Mr Bracebridge at Cathcart's Hill burial ground. Tinted lithograph after W. Simpson.
  • Two priests and their server follow a funeral procession carrying an open coffin into a church. Etching by J. Pesne after G.F. Barbieri, il Guercino.
  • Crimean War, Cathcart Hill: burial ground. Process print.
  • Christ raises Lazarus from his tomb. Etching by G.B. Castiglione.
  • Crimean War: a guardian angel appearing to a widow mourning the death of her husband on the battlefield. Coloured aquatint by J. Harris, 1856, after O. Norie and W. Bullock Webster.
  • Christ's body is carried to its tomb. Etching after Raphael, 1506-7.
  • The pest house and plague pit, Moorfields, London. Wood engraving.
  • The burial of those who drowned in a river on the Scilly Isles. Wood engraving.
  • The resurrected Christ appears before terrified soldiers. Etching by B. Bartoccini after F. Overbeck, 1848.
  • A man with cholera buried prematurely. Photograph after painting by A. J. Wiertz.
  • Christ raises Lazarus from his tomb; weapons hang from above. Engraving by J. Thomson, 1846, after J. Franklin after Rembrandt.
  • Three silhouette figures standing beside the open grave of an AIDS victim who falls in; a warning that AIDS leads to death by the National AIDS Programme of Guyana. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • Crimean War: ruins of the British soldier's graveyard. Wood engraving by R.C.H?.
  • Tomb effigies of William Bradbrige, his wife Alice, and their fourteen children. Engraving.
  • Christ raises Lazarus from his tomb. Engraving.
  • Burial of the dead in the graveyard of a parish church. Etching by James Taylor.
  • Members of different brotherhoods carrying a coffin during a procession. Coloured lithograph by Gatti and G. Dura after G. Dura, 1834.
  • Four pallbearers in Mexican dress carrying a coffin behind a priest into a church. Coloured lithograph.
  • The resurrected Christ flying above soldiers. Engraving.