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  • Philippines: the dead and smoked bodies of three people seated on the ground. Photograph, 19--.
  • Skeletons of priests (?), preserved and standing in rows wearing robes and berettas, depicted in a painting. Photograph.
  • A dead man, wearing robes, lying on his deathbed. Photograph.
  • Memorial of a dead child. Watercolour by S.E.B. (?), 1848.
  • A corpse laid out on a table for observation in a hospital. Drawing by L. Beatrice Thompson, c. 1913, after an engraved title page, 1677.
  • The skeleton of a friar in the role of Death as the reaper, surrounded by skulls, ribs and vertebrae, in a chapel. Photograph.
  • People visiting the morgue in Paris to view the cadavers. Lithograph by A. Boblet, 1833, after Cour (?).
  • Russo-Japanese War: Japanese soldiers entering a bombed fort to find dead and wounded men. Halftone, c. 1905, after C. M. Sheldon, from photographs.
  • 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.
  • Memorial of a dead child. Watercolour by S.E.B. (?), 1848.
  • Philippines: the body of a wealthy dead man displayed seated on a high chair after having been smoked for 15 days. Photograph, 19--.
  • Kusōzu: the death of a noble lady and the decay of her body. Watercolours.
  • 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.
  • 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. 178-.
  • Kusōzu: the death of a noble lady and the decay of her body. Watercolours.
  • The Fosse Commune in the cemetery of Père La Chaise claiming their dead. Wood engraving.
  • A woman personifying anatomy looks searchingly into the light emanating from a corpse, but she is mortally threatened by the scythe of Time; representing anatomy's struggle with decay. Engraving by N-G. Dupuis, 1759, after J-B-M. Pierre.
  • Kusōzu: the death of a noble lady and the decay of her body. Watercolours.
  • Philippines: skulls and a skeleton of the dead lying on the ground. Photograph, 19--.
  • Kusōzu: the death of a noble lady and the decay of her body. Watercolours.
  • Friern Hospital, London: a dead man on a bed, viewed from the side. Photograph, 1890/1910.
  • Palermo, Convento dei Cappuccini: skeletons of the friars, preserved and standing in rows wearing robes and berettas. Photograph by G. Incorpora.
  • Benares (Varanasi), Uttar Pradesh: a human cadaver abandoned in the water being examined by a dog. Photograph.
  • Old St. Thomas's Hospital: a cadaver, a skull, bones of the lower leg and foot, and two bell-jars on stands. Engraving by A. R. Freebairn after a medallion by W. Wyon, 1829.
  • Kusōzu: the death of a noble lady and the decay of her body. Watercolours.