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  • A funeral in a French church: the coffin is sprayed with holy water and lowered into the grounds of the church. Etching by B. Picart, 1724.
  • Funeral of Lord Ranelagh at Fulham Church in London in 1885. Wood engraving, ca. 1885.
  • An old man in a top hat sitting in a wooden cart with wheels that resembles a coffin, pointing at a passage in the book he is reading. Etching by J.T. Smith.
  • The dance of death: the undertaker and the physician. Coloured aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1816.
  • A funeral procession following a deceased bishop layed out on a bier into a parish hall. Coloured etching by F. Ferrari, 1820.
  • The depositing of the remains of General Picton in the vault at St. Paul's Cathedral in London. Wood engraving, ca. 1859.
  • Rome: people praying at a catafalque in a church for the souls in purgatory. Coloured lithograph by F. Villain after A.J.-B. Thomas, 1823.
  • An alchemist concentrates on a book in his study, while Death next to him tells him "My dear Herr Collaborator, you are are too hardworking". Gouache painting.
  • A group of mourners visiting a coffin layed out on a bier to pay their last respects to the dead. Etching by B. Picart, 1724.
  • The funeral of Frederick III, Emperor of Germany, in 1888. Wood engraving, ca. 1888.
  • A poor London street strewn with hopeless drunkards and lined with gin shops and a flourishing pawnbroker. Engraving, c. 1751, after W. Hogarth.
  • The catafalque erected for the funeral service of King Victor Emmmanuel, in the Pantheon, Rome, in 1878. Wood engraving.
  • The Hospital of Bethlem [Bedlam] at Moorfields, London: seen from the north, with people in the foreground. Engraving, c. 1764.
  • A coffin layed out on a bier in a chapel surrounded by a choir. Etching by B. Picart, 1724.
  • Christ raises the son of the widow of Nain from the dead. Engraving by J. Matham after F. Zuccaro.
  • A physician looks at the coffin of a deceased patient and says "I cured him too". Watercolour, ca. 1752/1755.
  • The funeral of King George IV. Wood engraving with letterpress, 1830.
  • Members of different brotherhoods carrying a coffin during a procession. Coloured lithograph after G. Dura.
  • Antiquities found in stone coffins in Chichester Cathedral, including silver chalices and gold rings. Engraving by Thomas King, 1830.
  • A cigarette compared with a nail being driven into a coffin; representing the lethal effect of smoking. Colour lithograph after K. Erol, 1972.
  • Christ raises the widow's son from the dead. Etching by A. Walker after J-B. Jouvenet.
  • Christ raises the widow's son from the dead. Engraving, c. 17th century.
  • Members of different brotherhoods carrying a coffin during a procession. Coloured lithograph by Gatti and G. Dura after G. Dura.
  • A doctor, straddled by a skeleton, holds a full purse in his hands; signifying that he lives well off others' deaths. Coloured engraving.
  • An undertaker visiting a sick man in the hope of gaining a new client. Coloured etching after R. Newton.
  • The skeleton of a clergyman called Morard dressed in clerial robes lying in a coffin. Lithograph by François Le Villain after Horace de Viel-Castel.
  • The body of Earl Ferrers, displayed upright in his coffin at the Royal College of Surgeons. Engraving.
  • The body of Earl Ferrers, displayed upright in his coffin at the Royal College of Surgeons. Engraving by Valois.
  • Members of different brotherhoods carrying a coffin during a procession. Coloured lithograph by Gatti and G. Dura after G. Dura.
  • Christ raises the widow's son from the dead. Engraving by J. Barlow.