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  • Sarawak: a ornamented house constructed for the body of a dead tribal chief. Photograph.
  • The entrance of Low Hill General Cemetery, Liverpool. Engraving by Robert Wallis after Thomas Allom.
  • The crypt of Bow church, containing coffins of London fever victims. Wood engraving by Laing after J. Brown.
  • Sir John Simon (?) in his role as the first Medical Officer of Health for the City of London putting pressure on the Corporation of London to act upon the pestilential conditions of the graveyards in the City. Lithograph by Bolus, 1851.
  • Two children visiting a grave in a cemetery. Aquatint.
  • Two women in a Turkish burying ground; one kneeling on a rug, the other watering plants. Engraving.
  • Crimean War, Cathcart Hill: graves in the fort. Coloured lithograph by E. Walker after W. Simpson.
  • A monk and a statue of Saint Patrick trying to prevent the devil from snatching the corpse of a witch from its grave. Watercolour by E. Bell, 1804.
  • The grave of Benjamin Franklin and Deborah Franklin in Philadelphia. Wood engraving.
  • Mandala of black and white Mahākālas. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.
  • Scutari: people in the Turkish burial ground; city in the background. Watercolour by M. O'Reilly, 1854.
  • A monk and a statue of Saint Patrick trying to prevent the devil from snatching the corpse of a witch from its grave. Watercolour by E. Bell, 1804.
  • The entrance gateway of the City of London Cemetery. Wood engraving by W. E. Hodgkin after B. Sly.
  • An apothecary weeping at the grave of his late most prosperous and prevalent patient. Coloured aquatint by G.M. Woodward, 1801.
  • Two men placing the shrouded corpse which they have just disinterred into a sack while Death, as a nightwatchman holding a lantern, grabs one of the grave-robbers from behind. Coloured drawing by T. Rowlandson, 1775.
  • Mandala of black and white Mahākālas. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.
  • A young nun digging a grave while another nun sits nearby. Process print after J.E. Millais, 1858-1859.
  • A funeral in a cemetery: a gentleman leads a distressed young lady to her coach. Stipple engraving.
  • Crimean War, Scutari: hospital and cemetery. Coloured lithograph by J. Needham, 1856, after W. Simpson.
  • Mandala of black and white Mahākālas. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.
  • The church of Saint Peter-in-the-East, Oxford: section of the chancel and plan of the crypt. Line engraving by J. Basire, 1835, after G. Gwilt, 1818.
  • Auxerre, France: tomb of Paul Bert, covered with wreaths of flowers. Photograph.
  • John Evelyn's monument in a church in Wotton, Surrey. Pencil drawing.
  • Crimean War: cemetry on the fort at Cathcart's Hill. Coloured lithograph by C. Haghe, 1855, after W. Simpson.
  • A man and a boy contemplating gravestones in a cemetery. Line engraving by J.M. Delattre after J.H. Ramberg.
  • India: the tombstone of Brigadier General Nicholson in a cemetery near Delhi. Photograph by F. Beato, c. 1858.
  • A scene showing alms-giving of food, water, clothes and money; in the midst of this Charity is seen with a Pelican on her head holding a Sacred Heart. Line engraving by H. Cock after P. Bruegel, 1559.
  • A man with the graves of plague victims in the background. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • Crimean War: quarantine cemetery and church with a French battery. Tinted lithograph by J. Needham, 1856, after W. Simpson.
  • A monk and a statue of Saint Patrick trying to prevent the devil from snatching the corpse of a witch from its grave. Watercolour by E. Bell, 1804.