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  • Crypt of Bow Church, London - A London Fever Still. (Coffins in Crypt).
  • The crypt of Bow church, containing coffins of London fever victims. Wood engraving by Laing after J. Brown.
  • Antiquities found in stone coffins in Chichester Cathedral, including silver chalices and gold rings. Engraving by Thomas King, 1830.
  • The transfer of the coffins of King Louis XVI of France and his wife, Queen Marie Antoinette, to the church St. Denis in Paris on 21 January 1815. Etching with engraving, 1815.
  • A gin shop: an elegant young woman is selling gin to a group of paupers who are standing in a mantrap; the walls decorated with coffins; Death enters the room dressed as a nightwatchman. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1829.
  • A small coffin, presumably the coffin of Elizabeth, second daughter of Charles II. Etching with engraving.
  • 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.
  • Coffin burial and grave goods. Cristhorpe Cliff and Tumuli.
  • A man carries a coffin on his back. Etching.
  • Albert Isaiah Coffin. Mezzotint by H. B. Hall after Charpentier.
  • 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)
  • Albert Isaiah Coffin. Stipple engraving by H. B. Hall after Charpentier.
  • A coffin decorated with skulls and wreaths of flowers. Woodcut, 1720.
  • A botanic guide to health and the natural pathology of disease / [Albert Isaiah Coffin].
  • Medical botany : a course of lectures delivered at Sussex Hall, during 1850 / by A.I. Coffin.
  • 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.