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  • A graveyard at night with an owl perched on a branch. Reproduction of a wood engraving by Robert Paterson, 18--.
  • Mortuary hut in graveyard for dying, Nicobar. The dying are removed to this hut to prevent defilement of their dwellings.
  • All Saints Church and graveyard at Stone, in Ham and Stone parish, near Berkeley, Gloucestershire. Watercolour attributed to W. Davies, 1797.
  • Sycamore tree (Acer pseudoplatanus L.) in a graveyard near Reading, Berkshire. Soft-ground etching by W. Delamotte, c. 1806, after W. Havell.
  • A woman leaning on a tombstone in a graveyard reading from her bible. Stipple engraving by J. Cochran after Joseph John Jenkins, 1839.
  • A bereaved mother mourning her dead daughter in a graveyard, stricken with remorse for having treated her harshly in her lifetime. Engraving by R.L. Wright.
  • Two men in a graveyard, one of them pointing to an ornate stone tomb, possibly to indicate the whereabouts of a third man to the second one. Etching attributed to J.W. Meil, 17--.
  • In the graveyard of a church, Tom Idle gambles with some disreputable companions on a tombstone; the parish beadle stands behind and raises a stick as if to beat Idle. Engraving by Thomas Cook after William Hogarth, 1795.
  • Top left, gamebirds watching in safety while hunters and poachers shoot each other; top right, a graveyard for colonial institutions in Africa; bottom left, spoonbills (birds) made of teapots and spoons; bottom centre, two men talking about a hen and some ducklings; bottom right, a weather vane in the form of a man holding a gun. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1831.
  • G.A. Walker, Lectures on the metropolitan grave-yards.
  • Mortsafes in churchyard
  • Entrance to vault in Leochel old churchyard, Aberdeenshire.
  • Mortsafe used as a cattle trough, Aberdeenshire.
  • Mortsafe at Oyne, Aberdeenshire.
  • Mortsafe in Skene churchyard, Aberdeenshire.
  • Mortsafe tackle at Invererie, Aberdeenshire.
  • Mortsafe in Towie churchyard, Aberdeenshire.
  • Symbols of death and mourning to mark World AIDS Day 1997. Colour lithograph, 1997.
  • 'Pest house' (isolation hospital in times of plague), Tothill Fields, Westminster, London. Lithograph, c. 1840.
  • Cyprus. Photograph by John Thomson, 1878.
  • Cyprus. Photograph by John Thomson, 1878.
  • Cyprus. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1878.
  • Railings used to protect graves from body snatchers
  • Railings used to protect graves from body snatchers
  • Railings used to protect graves from body snatchers