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  • The funeral of an Ashanti chief. Engraving by A. Thom, 1858.
  • Tomb with deposit of skulls
  • A mother bearing her child's coffin in a funeral procession for victims of the plague. Colour lithograph after F. Jenewein, 1900.
  • A woman washes the feet of another woman in a church. Engraving.
  • Pompe funebri. Di tutte le nationi del mondo. Raccolte dalle storie sagre, et profane / Dal Sr. Dottre. Francesco Perucci.
  • A funerary reliquary, Upper Ogowe, Gabon
  • Four men carrying a dead man on a wooden stretcher for his cremation, watched by grieving women. Gouache painting by an Indian painter.
  • A funerary reliquary, Upper Ogowe, Gabon
  • A funerary reliquary, Upper Ogowe, Gabon
  • Hired bannermen partaking in a funeral procession.
  • The ceremonies and religious customs of the various nations of the known world. Together with historical annotations, and several curious discourses... / Written originally in French, and illustrated with a large number of folio copper plates ... designed by Mr. Bernard Picart ... Faithfully translated into English, by a gentleman some time since of St. John's College in Oxford.
  • A funerary reliquary, Upper Ogowe, Gabon
  • A large funeral procession following a bier with a corpse into a church. Etching with engraving by Jakob van der Schley, 1735.
  • A funerary reliquary, Upper Ogowe, Gabon
  • Anselmus Franciscus (1635-1695), archiepiscopal of Aschaffenburg, on his bier, dressed in his habit and surrounded by his regalia. Line engraving with etching.
  • Pompe funebri. Di tutte le nationi del mondo. Raccolte dalle storie sagre, et profane / Dal Sr. Dottre. Francesco Perucci.
  • Musicians playing at a Polterabend or eve-of-wedding party. Coloured lithograph.
  • The ceremonies and religious customs of the various nations of the known world. Together with historical annotations, and several curious discourses... / Written originally in French, and illustrated with a large number of folio copper plates ... designed by Mr. Bernard Picart ... Faithfully translated into English, by a gentleman some time since of St. John's College in Oxford.
  • A congregation of Jewish mourners lowering a coffin into a grave during a funeral. Engraving by B. Picart, ca. 1733.
  • Bombay (Mumbai): a Parsee (Parsi) "Tower of silence" where the bodies of the dead are exposed to vultures. Photograph.
  • Schucha, Caucasus: a funeral procession of men holding swords. Wood engraving, ca. 1870.
  • A celebration party is given in honour of a newly-married couple. Engraving by B. Picart after himself.
  • The washing of poor men's feet by the Pope on Holy Thursday. Etching after B. Picart.
  • A funeral procession following a coffin, laid out on a bier, into a church. Etching by B. Picart, 1724.
  • The funeral procession of the Duke of Wellington passing Apsley House in London in 1852. Lithograph by A. Maclure.
  • A Chinese funeral scene: male and female mourners are shown kneeling beside the body of an old man, who lies on a table. Gouache on rice paper, China, 1800/1900.
  • The funeral procession of the Duke of Wellington passing Trafalgar Square in London in 1852. Lithograph by A. Maclure.
  • A corpse is dressed in grave clothes and layed out for mourners to visit. Etching with engraving.
  • The funeral procession of the Duke of Wellington arriving at St. Paul's Cathedral in London in 1852. Lithograph by A. Maclure.
  • The funeral of the Duke of Wellington in St. Paul's Cathedral in London in 1852. Lithograph by A. Maclure.