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  • The grave of John Keats in the Protestant cemetery of Rome, Italy. Etching by J.L. Chapman, 1863.
  • Crimean War: quarantine cemetery and church with a French battery. Tinted lithograph by J. Needham, 1856, after W. Simpson.
  • Nagasaki, Japan: Temple Street, with the cemetery on the hillside in the background. Photograph by Felice Beato, ca. 1868.
  • A man and a boy contemplating gravestones in a cemetery. Line engraving by J.M. Delattre after J.H. Ramberg.
  • The funeral of Mrs Susannah Wesley at Bunhill Fields, the Methodist cemetery. Mezzotint by S. Gimber, 1865, after D. Woolstenhome.
  • The wife of the keeper of the burying ground near Valenciennes standing outside the gate of the cemetery. Coloured aquatint, 1817.
  • The funeral of Mrs Susannah Wesley at Bunhill Fields, the Methodist cemetery: a key to the identities of the mourners. Etching.
  • Skeletons approach a group of terrified, fashionably-dressed ladies and summon them to the cemetery. Etching by Lavalée after J. Gamelin, 1778/1779.
  • A man kneeling and praying at a tomb in a cemetery is joined by another gentleman. Line engraving by Taylor after J. Thurston.
  • People decorating the graves of their relatives in a cemetery in Italy for the celebration of All Souls. Gouache painting by Reginald Cleaver.
  • Crowds of sick people gathered at the tomb of F. de Paris, St. Medard cemetery, in the hope of a miracle cure. Engraving.
  • Four sketches, from different angles, of an Anglo-Saxon skull, from cemetery at Brighthampton, Oxon (Kingdom of the West-Saxons, Sixth to Tenth Century A.D)
  • 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.
  • Tel-el-Kebir, Egypt: a military cemetery: war graves of soldiers killed in action during the British defeat of the Egyptian army at Tel-el-Kebir, on 13 September 1882. Photograph 1910/1945 (?).
  • A distressed woman leaning on a tombstone in a deserted graveyard. Etching with engraving by John Browne.
  • Two young ladies contemplating a tombstone in a graveyard. Mezzotint with engraving, 1803.
  • Two women in a Turkish burying ground; one kneeling on a rug, the other watering plants. Engraving.
  • Istanbul: people standing by tombs in a Turkish burial ground; the city in the background. Watercolour by M. O'Reilly, 1854.
  • A writer (Pinelli?) resting, holding a book while sitting on a tombstone, his two dogs at his feet; a pyramid in the background. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1809.
  • A distressed young woman leaning on a tombstone in a graveyard. Etching with engraving.
  • A distressed young woman leaning on a dilapidated wall in a graveyard. Etching with engraving.
  • Istanbul: the lesser burial ground attended by veiled women mourners, the Golden Horn in the background. Coloured lithograph by Henry Cooke, ca. 1860.
  • Beirut: veiled women in a burial ground. Coloured aquatint by J. Jeakes after D. Orme after F.B. Spilsbury, 1803.
  • Fleda and Mrs Rossitur visiting the grave of Hugh Rossitur. Engraving with etching.
  • A young woman weeping over a tombstone in a graveyard. Etching with 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 Japanese village in wooded country. Photograph by W.P. Floyd, ca. 1873.
  • People tending to the graves at a Turkish burying ground at Sidon. Etching with engraving by J. Redaway after W.H. Bartlett, 1842.
  • Scutari: people in the Turkish burial ground; city in the background. Watercolour by M. O'Reilly, 1854.
  • A man with the graves of plague victims in the background. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.