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  • A man of a hundred years is Death's target. Etching.
  • The fatal wounding of Sir Ralph Abercrombie at Alexandria, 1801. Line engraving.
  • The death of Saint Gunther von Niederalteich: he receives the eucharist from Šebíř (Severus) bishop of Prague. Engraving by R. Sadeler.
  • The rape of Lucretia by Tarquin. Line engraving by C. de Passe after J. van Winghe, 16--.
  • Two men discovering a dead woman in the street during the great plague of London. Wood engraving by J. Jellicoe after H. Railton.
  • Punishments of Hell. Chromolithograph.
  • The plague in London, 1665. Etching by A. Smith, 1810, after R. Smirke.
  • The arrival of the remains of Napoleon Bonaparte in the harbour of Rouen. Lithograph by J. Arnout after V.J. Adam.
  • The distillery of Deacon Giles seen as the work of the Devil. Coloured wood-engraving after G. B. Cheever, ca. 1835.
  • Two young ladies contemplating a tombstone in a graveyard. Mezzotint with engraving, 1803.
  • Crimean War: a guardian angel appearing to a widow mourning the death of her husband on the battlefield. Coloured aquatint by J. Harris, 1856, after O. Norie and W. Bullock Webster.
  • Christ's body is carried to its tomb. Etching after Raphael, 1506-7.
  • Christ sits at the bedside of Jairus's sickening daughter. Etching after G.C. von. Max.
  • Young children scattering flowers around the tomb of F.A. Gallisch. Line engraving with etching by C.W. Griessmann after A.F. Oeser, 1789.
  • The Lord Protector, Oliver Cromwell, lying in state at Somerset House, surrounded by mourners. Engraving with etching by James Caldwall.
  • A street during the plague in London with a death cart and mourners. Colour wood engraving by E. Evans.
  • Death points an arrow at a female dancer. Aquatint by J. Gleadah, 1822.
  • The physician of the dance of death : a historical study of the evolution of the dance of death mythus in art / by Aldred Scott Warthin ... with 92 illustrations.
  • A dead victim of cholera at Sunderland in 1832. Coloured lithograph attributed to J.W. Gear.
  • A monk contemplates a skull at candlelight. Lithograph by Nepomuk Johann Strixner after L. Carracci.
  • Plague in Phrygia. Engraving by F. Aquila after Raphael after Virgil.
  • Simeon holds the Christ child, who is holding an apple. Mezzotint by H. Dawe after G. Reni.
  • The open tomb of Pallas is visited by a group of visitors. Etching.
  • The physician of the dance of death : a historical study of the evolution of the dance of death mythus in art / by Aldred Scott Warthin ... with 92 illustrations.
  • Death looms above a group of people inflicted with various physical and mental diseases - a lazar house. Stipple engraving by M. Haughton, 1813, after H. Fuseli.
  • Six people seated at an outdoor table are approached by Death, a young woman holding a skull, and a winged putto. Etching.
  • The years of a man's life from 90 to 100: death. Engraving by Gerard van Groeningen, 1572.
  • Invitation to a dinner of the Guardians of the Asylum for Female Orphans: with a scene of a soldier falling in battle, and a widow and daughters. Engraving by W. Skelton, 1822, after T. Stothard.
  • Fathime's astral body leaving her as she dies while Euphrosyne sits and watches. Line engraving by S. Davenport after H. Corbould.
  • King Ahaziah lies sick after having fallen through an upper window: Elijah foretells his death. Drawing by H.P. Bone.