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  • Calcutta, West Bengal: young men standing by a funeral pyre on which they have placed the dead body of a man. Photograph.
  • Calcutta, West Bengal: young men placing the dead body of a man on a funeral pyre. Photograph.
  • Calcutta, West Bengal: the dead body of a man burning on a funeral pyre; a young man standing by. Photograph.
  • Calcutta, West Bengal: a man about to scatter material from a bowl on a dead body lying on a funeral pyre, watched by women. Photograph.
  • Bombay (Mumbai): a body burning on a funeral pyre. Photograph.
  • Calcutta, West Bengal: a man about to set light to a funeral pyre, watched by men and boys. 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.
  • Benares (Varanasi), Uttar Pradesh: corpses being burned and bathed. Photograph.
  • Bangkok, Siam [Thailand]. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1867.
  • Bangkok, Siam [Thailand]. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1867.
  • Bangkok, Siam [Thailand]. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1867.
  • Bangkok, Siam [Thailand]. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1867.
  • Plague epidemic, Bombay, 1896/7
  • William Price of Llantrisant, in druidic costume, with goats. Oil painting by A C Hemming, 1918.
  • William Price of Llantrisant, in druidic costume, with goats. Oil painting by A C Hemming, 1918.
  • William Price of Llantrisant, in druidic costume, with goats. Oil painting by A C Hemming, 1918.
  • Nepal; Kathmandu Valley, Pashupatinath, 1986
  • An octave for Mr Ernest Hart at Sir Henry Thompson's house. Oil painting by Solomon Joseph Solomon R.A., ca. 1893.
  • An octave for Mr Ernest Hart at Sir Henry Thompson's house. Oil painting by Solomon Joseph Solomon R.A., ca. 1893.
  • An octave for Mr Ernest Hart at Sir Henry Thompson's house. Oil painting by Solomon Joseph Solomon R.A., ca. 1893.
  • An octave for Mr Ernest Hart at Sir Henry Thompson's house. Oil painting by Solomon Joseph Solomon R.A., ca. 1893.
  • An octave for Mr Ernest Hart at Sir Henry Thompson's house. Oil painting by Solomon Joseph Solomon R.A., ca. 1893.
  • A liqueur label illustrated with two mint plants (Mentha species) Engraving, 19th century.
  • A liqueur label illustrated with two vanilla plants (Vanilla planifolia). Coloured engraving, 19th century.
  • A mint liqueur label illustrated with two men, an angel and a crown. Engraving, 19th century.
  • A French liqueur label illustrated with Pan piping to a maiden by a forest pool. Lithograph by E. Goy, 19th century, after G. Brunner.
  • Saint James the hermit beating himself with a stone as he contemplates a skeleton in a tomb. Engraving by G. Piccini after Martin de Vos.
  • A healthy and a dead goldfish representing safe and unsafe lubricants; an advertisement for water-based lubricants. Colour lithograph by Chris Bal and Wilberto van den Bogaard for The AIDS Team in Antwerp, ca. 1995.
  • London School of Tropical Medicine 27th Session.