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  • A woman leaning on a tombstone in a graveyard reading from her bible. Stipple engraving by J. Cochran after Joseph John Jenkins, 1839.
  • A group of mourners visiting a coffin layed out on a bier to pay their last respects to the dead. Etching by B. Picart, 1724.
  • A funeral cortège in the city of Amsterdam. Engraving with etching.
  • People decorating the graves of their relatives in a cemetery in Italy for the celebration of All Souls. Gouache painting by Reginald Cleaver.
  • A woman has just died: one man breaks the news to another. Wood engraving.
  • A little girl (Jane) lies dying, surrounded by her family who weep and grieve. Line engraving by Brown.
  • The Morgue, Paris, by Notre Dame. Etching, 1829, after W. Price.
  • Two hooded figures and a king grieve over a dead person while a masked woman enters the room with a bowl and a stick. Woodcut attributed to C. van Sichem the elder.
  • A young woman wearing a veil and black clothing mourning at a tombstone, with her dog attending on her. Mezzotint by H. Quilley after a painting by C. Hancock, 1836.
  • A priest administering extreme unction to a dying nun. Colour stipple engraving.
  • A male corpse is wrapped in linen and entombed while a funeral cortège proceeds into a church in the background. Etching with engraving by G. Spilberg after C. de Passe.
  • Two women weeping over a prone figure. Drawing, c. 1793.
  • A woman weeping over her dead lover. Drawing, c. 1793.
  • A young knight in full armour receiving extreme unction from a priest surrounded by his grieving family. Line engraving with stipple by J. Goodyear after G. Cattermole.
  • An ideal mourning head for the tomb of Pope Clement XIII. Engraving by P. Fontana after F. Cecchi after A. Canova.
  • A dying woman lies in bed: a woman at the bedside is consoled by another. Line engraving by F. Lightfoot after T. Allom.
  • Nuns and mourning women lamenting the death of a man laid out in an open coffin. Coloured stipple engraving by A.J. Lallemand after F. Gonin after Cominotti.
  • Mourners attending a burial where the coffin is about to be lowered into the ground. Stipple engraving by N. Schiavonetti after R. Westall, 1812.
  • A funeral in the city of the Hague in Holland. Engraving with etching by B. Picart, 1732.
  • Monks lamenting the death of a man layed out in a coffin before them in a church. Coloured aquatint.
  • A death-bed scene of man being read his last rites surrounded by his family, the priest and courtiers. Etching.
  • Four pallbearers in Mexican dress carrying a coffin behind a priest into a church. Coloured lithograph.
  • A sick girl in bed being counselled by a nun while another woman looks anxious. Mezzotint by S.W. Reynolds, 1829, after R.P. Bonington.
  • A young woman lies dying in her bed surrounded by a grieving family. Line engraving.
  • Visiting the sick: a grieving woman bends over a praying patient. Tinted aquatint by F.C. Lewis, 1831, after J. Flaxman.
  • Visiting the sick: a grieving woman bends over a praying patient. Tinted aquatint by F.C. Lewis, 1831, after J. Flaxman.
  • Eudamidas dictating his will on his deathbed, leaving the care of his mother and daughter to two friends. Drawing by A.-Ch. Coumeau or Courneau, 1802-1804, after N. Poussin.
  • A dying little girl is held by her mother in bed, while another child consoles the grieving father. Transfer lithograph.
  • Eudamidas dictating his will on his deathbed, leaving the care of his mother and daughter to two friends. Drawing by A.-Ch. Coumeau or Courneau, 1802-1804, after N. Poussin.
  • Cupid standing next to a tomb weeping and mourning the death of Queen Mary II. Mezzotint by J. Smith after G. Kneller, ca. 1695.