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  • Coffin burial and grave goods. Cristhorpe Cliff and Tumuli.
  • Albert Isaiah Coffin. Mezzotint by H. B. Hall after Charpentier.
  • Albert Isaiah Coffin. Stipple engraving by H. B. Hall after Charpentier.
  • A botanic guide to health and the natural pathology of disease / [Albert Isaiah Coffin].
  • A small coffin, presumably the coffin of Elizabeth, second daughter of Charles II. Etching with engraving.
  • Medical botany : a course of lectures delivered at Sussex Hall, during 1850 / by A.I. Coffin.
  • The coffin of Princess Amelia. Coloured engraving.
  • Lord Nelson's ornamented coffin. Coloured aquatint, 1806.
  • A large man contemplating a child's coffin. Coloured etching.
  • A man carries a coffin on his back. Etching.
  • The coffin of Napoleon Bonaparte. Lithograph by J.B. Arnout.
  • David Livingstone's coffin carried in procession, at Southampton. Wood engraving.
  • A memento mori, used to remind the user of the transience of life and material luxury, containing a decaying corpse inside a coffin. (Image shows coffin only)
  • A coffin decorated with skulls and wreaths of flowers. Woodcut, 1720.
  • A procession following the coffin of David Livingstone in Southampton in 1873. Wood engraving.
  • Members of different brotherhoods carrying a coffin during a procession. Coloured lithograph after G. Dura.
  • Interment at Westminster Abbey of the coffin of David Livingstone. Wood engraving by J. Nash.
  • The transferral of the coffin of Napoleon III to Chiselhurst in 1878. Wood engraving, ca. 1878.
  • Lord Nelson's funeral car containing the coffin. Coloured aquatint with engraving by Hawkins & Ottway, 1806.
  • Four pallbearers in Mexican dress carrying a coffin behind a priest into a church. Coloured lithograph.
  • Two monks guarding a coffin inside an old building. Etching by W. Greatbach after J. Taylor.
  • The body of Earl Ferrers, displayed upright in his coffin at the Royal College of Surgeons. Engraving.
  • Japanese funeral customs: the coffin, enclosed in a palanquin lies in the temple. Watercolour, ca. 1880 (?).
  • The procession following the coffin of David Livingstone in Southampton in 1873. Wood engraving by G. Durand.
  • A clergyman in a coffin holding a crozier is surrounded by a group of mourners. Line block.
  • William Harvey: his coffin in the vault of the Harvey family grave in Hempstead, Essex. Process print.
  • The wheel of fortune (left); a medieval lead coffin (right). Line engraving by J. Swaine after T. Hollis.
  • Japanese funeral customs: a Buddhist monk kneels before a coffin; mourners kneel behind him. Watercolour, ca. 1880 (?).
  • The body of Earl Ferrers, displayed upright in his coffin at the Royal College of Surgeons. Engraving by Valois.
  • A physician looks at the coffin of a deceased patient and says "I cured him too". Watercolour, ca. 1752/1755.