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  • Calcutta, West Bengal: a man about to scatter material from a bowl on a dead body lying on a funeral pyre, watched by women. Photograph.
  • A congregation of Russian mourners preparing a corpse for burial. Engraving with etching by B. Picart, 1732.
  • Calcutta, West Bengal: young men standing by a funeral pyre on which they have placed the dead body of a man. Photograph.
  • Members of different brotherhoods carrying a coffin during a procession. Coloured lithograph by Gatti and G. Dura after G. Dura, 1834.
  • A congregation of Jewish mourners lowering a coffin into a grave during a funeral. Engraving by B. Picart, ca. 1733.
  • A funeral procession carrying the corpse of an unmarried girl layed out on a bier through a village. Coloured lithograph by Gatti and G. Dura after G. Dura, 1851.
  • A dog and a horse attending the funeral of their master, an officer in the army. Lithograph.
  • Bombay (Mumbai): a body burning on a funeral pyre. Photograph.
  • Members of different brotherhoods carrying a coffin during a procession. Coloured lithograph after G. Dura.
  • Nuns and mourning women lamenting the death of a man laid out in an open coffin. Coloured stipple engraving by A.J. Lallemand after F. Gonin after Cominotti.
  • Calcutta, West Bengal: young men placing the dead body of a man on a funeral pyre. Photograph.
  • Members of different brotherhoods carrying a coffin during a procession. Coloured lithograph by Gatti and G. Dura after G. Dura.
  • Members of different brotherhoods carrying a coffin during a procession. Coloured lithograph by Gatti and G. Dura after G. Dura.
  • A funeral in a cemetery: a gentleman leads a distressed young lady to her coach. Stipple engraving.
  • Calcutta, West Bengal: the dead body of a man burning on a funeral pyre; a young man standing by. Photograph.
  • The funeral procession of the Dutch naval commander de Ruyter in 1677. Etching.
  • A funeral in the city of the Hague in Holland. Engraving with etching by B. Picart, 1732.
  • The Fosse Commune in the cemetery of Père La Chaise claiming their dead. Wood engraving.
  • Men washing the body of a recently deceased man in a Japanese bath-house. Watercolour painting, 18--.
  • A funeral in India(?) of a plague victim. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • Calcutta, West Bengal: a man about to set light to a funeral pyre, watched by men and boys. Photograph.
  • The funeral procession of John of Lyon. Coloured lithograph.
  • The funeral of an Ashanti chief. Engraving by A. Thom, 1858.
  • The depositing of the remains of General Picton in the vault at St. Paul's Cathedral in London. Wood engraving, ca. 1859.
  • Monks lamenting the death of a man layed out in a coffin before them in a church. Coloured aquatint.
  • The body of the Duke of Wellington lying in state in Chelsea Hospital, London, in 1852. Lithograph by A. Maclure.
  • Part of the funeral procession of General Monk, Duke of Albemarle, in 1670. Wood engraving.
  • Assam: a burial place of the Konyak Naga tribe, with heads placed in sandstone hollows above ground. Photograph attributed to Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf, ca. 1937.
  • The funeral ceremony of the Earl of Beaconsfield in 1881. Wood engraving, 1881.
  • 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.