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  • The funeral ceremony of the Earl of Beaconsfield in 1881. Wood engraving, 1881.
  • Two priests and their server follow a funeral procession carrying an open coffin into a church. Etching by J. Pesne after G.F. Barbieri, il Guercino.
  • Skulls and bones of friars, looking towards the altar of a chapel. Photograph.
  • Four pallbearers in Mexican dress carrying a coffin behind a priest into a church. Coloured lithograph.
  • A Lutheran funeral in the city of Augsburg. Engraving by B. Picart, 1732, after Catherine Sperling.
  • Skulls and skeletons of friars arranged columns around the walls of a chapel. Photograph.
  • Benares (Varanasi), Uttar Pradesh: corpses being burned and consigned to the river Ganges. Photograph.
  • Benares (Varanasi), Uttar Pradesh: corpses being burned and consigned to the river Ganges. Photograph.
  • 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.
  • The skeleton of a friar in the role of Death as the reaper, surrounded by skulls, ribs and vertebrae, in a chapel. Photograph.
  • A funerary monument (toupapow) with a corpse on it, encountered by Captain Cook in Tahiti on his second voyage, 1772-1775. Engraving by W. Woollett, 1777, after W. Hodges.
  • The burial of Adam: Adam is wrapped in linen sheets and lowered into the grave while a large crowd of mourners is looking on. Engraving by Jan Sadeler after M. de Vos.
  • Benares (Varanasi), Uttar Pradesh: corpses being burned and bathed. Photograph.
  • An ensemble of Burmese musicians playing traditional instruments at a funeral. Wood engraving, 1872, after H.G. Robley.
  • Page 4: a funeral procession. Watercolour drawing.
  • All of Paris turns up for an important funeral procession. Colour process print after a lithograph by T.A. Steinlen.
  • Chapel and tomb of the family of the Duke of Orleans, seen from the gardens. Lithograph by I-L. Deroy, 1842, after N.J. Kellin.
  • Tibet: a dead body being broken up with a hammer and knife for throwing to the birds. Photograph, 19--.
  • The funeral of David Livingstone in Westminster Abbey in 1873. Wood engraving.
  • A procession following the coffin of David Livingstone in Southampton in 1873. Wood engraving.
  • The funeral of Mr. Peabody in Westminster Abbey in 1869. Wood engraving, 1869.
  • Albrecht von Haller: his monument is visited by a grieving mythological figure. Engraving with etching by B.A. Dunker and M.G. Eichler.
  • An infant dies, surrounded by mourners. Engraving.
  • Samson's crushed body is borne away by his brethren. Engraving by J. Audran after F. Verdier, 1698.
  • 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.
  • A funeral procession of elderly women with cats in their arms, following the coffin of a dead cat, in a churchyard. Coloured stipple engraving by J. Pettit after E.G. Byron, 1789.
  • The funeral procession of Pallas, son of Evander. Etching by P. Lombard, 1654, after F. Cleyn.
  • The burial of Saint Dominic in Bologna in 1221: friars placing the corpse of Saint Dominic into a coffin in the presence of Cardinal Ugolinus. Line engraving by T. Wier and A. Tendi after a marble relief by C. Bianconi and J-B. Boudard.
  • Bangkok, Siam (Thailand): the funeral meru for the cremation of King Pinklao (second king), January 1866. Photograph by John Thomson, 1866.