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  • Scenes in the underworld; spirits of the dead disembarking from the boat of Charon; Charon receiving a ghost into his boat. Etching by L.P. Boitard.
  • The three holy women lament over the dead body of Christ. Coloured mezzotint by V. Green, 1800, after Maria Cosway, 1799.
  • Japanese funeral customs: in the house of the dead man, relatives share a meal with a Buddhist monk. Watercolour, ca. 1880 (?).
  • Saint Antony of Padua bringing a baby back from the dead [?]. Etching by G. Canuti after Girolamo da Treviso.
  • Calcutta, West Bengal: the dead body of a man burning on a funeral pyre; a young man standing by. Photograph.
  • Saint Bernardino of Siena bringing a sick infant back from the dead. Colour etching by S. Mulinari after V. Salimbeni.
  • Two men discovering a dead woman in the street during the great plague of London. Wood engraving by J. Jellicoe after H. Railton.
  • King Richard III holds a bloody sword, the dead body of King Henry VI lies on the ground. Watercolour by Richard Dadd, 1853.
  • Two men discovering a dead woman in the street during the great plague of London. Wood engraving by J. Jellicoe after H. Railton.
  • Horrors of the London burial grounds, being a correct account of the horrible disclosures made by gravediggers : with the manner of cutting up dead bodies, and other horrible transactions.
  • Horrors of the London burial grounds, being a correct account of the horrible disclosures made by gravediggers : with the manner of cutting up dead bodies, and other horrible transactions.
  • Horrors of the London burial grounds, being a correct account of the horrible disclosures made by gravediggers : with the manner of cutting up dead bodies, and other horrible transactions.
  • Horrors of the London burial grounds, being a correct account of the horrible disclosures made by gravediggers : with the manner of cutting up dead bodies, and other horrible transactions.
  • Horrors of the London burial grounds, being a correct account of the horrible disclosures made by gravediggers : with the manner of cutting up dead bodies, and other horrible transactions.
  • Horrors of the London burial grounds, being a correct account of the horrible disclosures made by gravediggers : with the manner of cutting up dead bodies, and other horrible transactions.
  • Horrors of the London burial grounds, being a correct account of the horrible disclosures made by gravediggers : with the manner of cutting up dead bodies, and other horrible transactions.
  • The birth of Julius Caesar from his dead mother. Reproduction, 1933, of a woodcut, 1506.
  • The dance of death: the fight is over and Death is seen seated, enthroned on ruins composed of rubble and the dead. Drawing by or after E. Ille.
  • Severely diseased tissue on the buttocks of a dead woman, showing symptoms of creeping or serpiginous phagedena. Watercolour by C. D'Alton, ca. 1857.
  • Niobe grieving over the loss of her fourteen children while holding some of their dead bodies. Etching by B. Pinelli after F. Rehberg, 1810.
  • Saul consults Samuel after the witch of Endor has conjured him from the dead; demons crowd the background. Engraving by J. Taylor after S. Rosa, 1813.
  • Saul consults Samuel after the witch of Endor has conjured him from the dead; demons crowd the background. Engraving by A. Laurent, 17--, after S. Rosa.
  • A group of men lower the body of a dead man on to a pyre of logs prior to a Hindu cremation ceremony in Bombay at the time of the plague. Photograph, 1896/1897.
  • Calcutta, West Bengal: young men standing by a funeral pyre on which they have placed the dead body of a man. Photograph.
  • A fox and a dog are facing each other over a dead fish lying on the ground; illustration of a fable. Etching.
  • As a young woman looks at the dress she wears in the mirror, the reflection she sees is of a dead woman lying with her head back.
  • The apparent revival of a dead man by galvanism. Drawing attributed to G.M. Woodward.
  • Boer War: British ambulance men taking the dead and wounded blindfolded behind enemy lines. Reproduction of a watercolour by F.J. Waugh, 1900.
  • A young figure lies dead on the ground and is surrounded by a group of figures with love and death flying above. Etching.
  • Philippines: the dead body of a wealthy man displayed seated on a high chair after having been smoked for 24 days. Photograph, 19--.