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  • Monuments on Easter Island (Rapa Nui), encountered by Captain Cook on his second voyage, 1772-1775. Engraving by W. Woollett, 1777, after W. Hodges.
  • Disabled and paralysed people lying outside a wall of the cemetery Santo Spirito in Rome begging for alms from passers-by. Coloured lithograph by F. Villain after A.J.-B. Thomas, 1823.
  • A burial place on Tongatapu, Tonga. Engraving by W. Byrne, 1777, after W. Hodges, 1773 or 1774.
  • One of the seven Acts of Mercy: burying the dead. Line engraving by S. Bourdon after himself.
  • A morai, place of burial and worship, in Atooi (Kauai); encountered by Captain Cook on his third voyage (1777-1780). Engraving by D. Lerpinière, 1784, after J. Webber.
  • Crimean War, Balaklava: graves at the harbour. Coloured lithograph by F. Jones after W. Simpson.
  • Crimean War, Scutari: burial ground. Coloured lithograph by Dickinson after Precivsi.
  • A young nun digging a grave while another nun sits nearby. Process print after J.E. Millais, 1858-1859.
  • St Pancras Old Church, Pancras Road, London: looking west. Etching by G. Cooke, 1827.
  • John Wesley: he visits his mother's grave in Bunhill Fields, London. Aquatint by G. Hunt after W. Lee.
  • The Fosse Commune in the cemetery of Père La Chaise claiming their dead. Wood engraving.
  • St Olave's Grammar School, Southwark. Etching by J. C. Buckler.
  • Fleda and Mrs Rossitur visiting the grave of Hugh Rossitur. Engraving with etching.
  • Macao Island: the northern part of Macao City and Cemetery. Photograph by W.P. Floyd, ca. 1873.
  • All Saints Church and graveyard at Stone, in Ham and Stone parish, near Berkeley, Gloucestershire. Watercolour attributed to W. Davies, 1797.
  • Grave of Alphonse Bertillon. Photograph.
  • A young woman weeping over a tombstone in a graveyard. Etching with engraving.
  • 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.
  • Istanbul: people standing by tombs in a Turkish burial ground; the city in the background. Watercolour by M. O'Reilly, 1854.
  • Report to Her Majesty's principal secretary of state for the Home Department from the Poor Law Commissioners, on an inquiry into the sanitary condition of the labouring population of Great Britain; with appendices. Presented to both Houses of Parliament, by command of Her Majesty, July, 1842 / [by Edwin Chadwick].
  • Crimean War: the French cemetery. Wood engraving.
  • A woman leaning on a tombstone in a graveyard reading from her bible. Stipple engraving by J. Cochran after Joseph John Jenkins, 1839.
  • A cemetery in Nagasaki, Japan. Wood engraving, ca. 1860.
  • Classical ruins behind Heriot's Hospital, Edinburgh. Line engraving by E. Finden, 1831, after D. Roberts.
  • Report to Her Majesty's principal secretary of state for the Home Department from the Poor Law Commissioners, on an inquiry into the sanitary condition of the labouring population of Great Britain; with appendices. Presented to both Houses of Parliament, by command of Her Majesty, July, 1842 / [by Edwin Chadwick].
  • Report to Her Majesty's principal secretary of state for the Home Department from the Poor Law Commissioners, on an inquiry into the sanitary condition of the labouring population of Great Britain; with appendices. Presented to both Houses of Parliament, by command of Her Majesty, July, 1842 / [by Edwin Chadwick].