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  • The dead body of Tee, one of the chiefs of the island of Tahiti, in a state of preservation. Engraving by W. Byrne, 1784, after J. Webber.
  • An anatomical dissection of the abdomen of a cadaver, seen in a foreshortened view. Aquatint by R. Perrette, 1904.
  • Kusōzu: the death of a noble lady and the decay of her body. Watercolours.
  • Kusōzu: the death of a noble lady and the decay of her body. Watercolours.
  • Kusōzu: the death of a noble lady and the decay of her body. Watercolours.
  • The desiccated corpse of a boy, about twelve years old, found in a vault under Saint Botolph's Aldgate old Church in 1742. Coloured etching by H. Rogers, ca. 1779.
  • Skulls and bones of friars, looking towards the altar of a chapel. Photograph.
  • A human skull reused as a banjo. Photograph, 19--.
  • People visiting the morgue in Paris to view the cadavers. Coloured aquatint by R.B. Peake, 1816.
  • A covered corpse lying on a bed. Etching by Ch. Chaplin, 1852, after A.G. Decamps.
  • A man lying dead on the ground with a broken bottle; a woman sits crying at his side. Lithograph by C. Schacher, c. 1845, after J. Faed.
  • Santa Maria della Concezione, Rome: skulls and skeletons of the friars arranged in arches and columns around the walls of the Convento dei Cappuccini. Photograph.
  • Kusōzu: the death of a noble lady and the decay of her body. Watercolours.
  • An anatomist meditates on the corpse of a beautiful young woman, laid out on a table next to his desk. Lithograph by F. Hanfstaengl after G. C. von Max, 1869.
  • The dissection of an emaciated, grey cadaver by an anatomist who is making an abdominal incision with a scalpel with his right hand while his left hand is placed on the cadaver's hip. Colour process print, 1926, after a manuscript illustration, 1345.
  • Interior of a dissecting room with cadavers laid out on tables. Drawing by Paul Renouard, 1906.
  • Kusōzu: the death of a noble lady and the decay of her body. Watercolours.
  • A Roman soldier throws a javelin over a dead body. Drawing, c. 1793.
  • Franco-Prussian War: peasants going to bury the dead from the Battle of Worth. Wood engraving.
  • A nightwatchman disturbs a body-snatcher who has dropped the stolen corpse he had been carrying in a hamper, while the anatomist runs away. Etching with engraving by W. Austin, 1773.
  • An elderly anatomist contemplates the heart that he has excised from the corpse of a beautiful, young woman. Photogravure by R. Schuster, 1907, after a painting by E. Simonet, 1890.
  • Boer War: a British officer's pony looking at the bones of a Boer's pony killed by a shell. Halftone, c. 1900, after S. S. Lucas after a photograph by E. Blake Knox.
  • An anatomist making an incision from the neck through the upper ribs of a skeletal cadaver. He stands behind the cadaver, his right hand cutting with a large blade while his left arm comes round the cadaver's neck as he uses his left hand to pull back the ribs at the incision. Colour process print, 1926, after a manuscript illustration, 1345.
  • Memorial of a dead child. Watercolour by S.E.B. (?), 1848.
  • Mummified remains of eight Igorot people, Philippines.
  • An elderly man after his death. Photograph, 1840/1855.
  • Monks carrying a corpse in a religious funeral procession, passers-by pay respect. Coloured aquatint.
  • Kusōzu: the death of a noble lady and the decay of her body. Watercolours.
  • Skulls and skeletons of friars arranged columns around the walls of a chapel. Photograph.
  • The Parisian surgeon and anatomist A. Velpeau (1795-1867) performing an anatomical dissection. Etching, after F.N.A. Feyen-Perrin, 1864.