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  • Death, symbolism: three skeletons with roundel of corpses,
  • Death, symbolism: three skeletons with roundel of corpses,
  • A cartouche including symbols of death and a funerary procession. Woodcut.
  • Symbols of death and mourning to mark World AIDS Day 1997. Colour lithograph, 1997.
  • A monument teaching mortality, including figures and symbols alluding to death. Etching by or after G. Fortuna.
  • A monument teaching mortality, including figures and symbols alluding to death. Etching by or after G. Fortuna.
  • Fourteen human skeletons performing activities symbolic of life and death. Engraving, 1740 or 1780, after C. Martínez, ca. 1680 (?).
  • A monument teaching mortality, including figures and symbols alluding to death. Woodcut by A. Andreani after G. Fortuna, ca. 1588.
  • The sleeping infant Christ is surrounded by the instruments of the Passion and symbols of death; representing the forthcoming Passion. Engraving after G. Reni.
  • A human body is consumed by a furnace; a woman holds a small red limbless effigy bearing a crown; a man holds a sheaf, and another a stick; below, by another furnace, a green and red dragon face each other, poised for combat; representing a stage in the process of alchemy. Coloured etching, ca. 18th century.
  • Taraka standing on a dead body. Coloured lithograph.
  • A skeleton as a fashionably dressed woman. Engraving attributed to Gerhard Altzenbach, 16--.
  • Boer War: removing the dead. Process print by S? Eng. Co.
  • Four scenes all involving water: trial by water, people using divination rods, and different types of rods. Engraving.
  • Boer War: train platform showing the arrival of wounded Boer soldiers, Pretoria. Process print.
  • Boer War: a Red Cross workber being shot in the line of duty while attending a patient. Process print by H.H.
  • A lone, wounded, French soldier greets a skeletal death figure with the words "I am ready". Lithograph, c. 1815, by N.-T. Charlet after himself.
  • King Charles I: after his execution, Britannia points to his elevation into heaven by angels. Etching after J. Vanderbank.
  • Durga slaying the Buffalo Demon. Chromolithograph, 1883.
  • Kali trampling Shiva. Chromolithograph by R. Varma.
  • Kālī standing triumphantly over Shiva. Chromolithograph.
  • Durga slaying the Buffalo demon surrounded by deities on a stand within a torana. Coloured transfer lithograph.
  • John Bull as a patient, in disarray, reclines on a sofa and receives medical treatment from politicians. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1813.
  • A pink triangle against a black backdrop with the words 'Silence=Death' representing an advertisement for the Silence=Death Project used by permission by ACT-UP, The AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power. Colour lithograph, 1987.
  • The disease AIDS represented as a hole in the road, the advice "Stop AIDS" as a warning not to fall into the hole. Colour lithograph after I. Chadima, 1988.
  • A denim jacket with a badge bearing the letters 'silence=death'; warning about the need to be open about AIDS. Colour lithograph.
  • A king presiding over a massacre of infants; soldiers pour the blood of the infants into a boiling vat; probably representing the stage of 'putrefaction' in the alchemical process. Coloured etching after etching, ca. 17th century.
  • The medicine Buddha (Bhaiṣajyaguru) and Tsongkhapa (1357-1419). Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.
  • The medicine Buddha (Bhaiṣajyaguru) and Tsongkhapa (1357-1419). Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.
  • The medicine Buddha (Bhaiṣajyaguru) and Tsongkhapa (1357-1419). Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.