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  • Charisma sive donum sanationis. Seu explicatio totius quaestionis de mirabilitum sanitatum gratia, in qua praecipue agitur de solenni et sacra curatione strumae, cui reges Angliae rite inaugurati, divinitus medicati sunt, et quam serenissima Elizabetha, Angliae, Franciae, & Hiberniae regina, ex caelesti gratia sibi concessa, applicatione manuum suarum, et contactu morbidarum partium, non sine religiosis ceremoniis, & precibus, cum admirabili & faelici successu indies sanat / [William Tooker].
  • The funeral of an Ashanti chief. Engraving by A. Thom, 1858.
  • Tomb with deposit of skulls
  • A woman washes the feet of another woman in a church. Engraving.
  • Pompe funebri. Di tutte le nationi del mondo. Raccolte dalle storie sagre, et profane / Dal Sr. Dottre. Francesco Perucci.
  • A funerary reliquary, Upper Ogowe, Gabon
  • Four men carrying a dead man on a wooden stretcher for his cremation, watched by grieving women. Gouache painting by an Indian painter.
  • A funerary reliquary, Upper Ogowe, Gabon
  • A funerary reliquary, Upper Ogowe, Gabon
  • Hired bannermen partaking in a funeral procession.
  • The ceremonies and religious customs of the various nations of the known world. Together with historical annotations, and several curious discourses... / Written originally in French, and illustrated with a large number of folio copper plates ... designed by Mr. Bernard Picart ... Faithfully translated into English, by a gentleman some time since of St. John's College in Oxford.
  • A funerary reliquary, Upper Ogowe, Gabon
  • A large funeral procession following a bier with a corpse into a church. Etching with engraving by Jakob van der Schley, 1735.
  • A funerary reliquary, Upper Ogowe, Gabon
  • Anselmus Franciscus (1635-1695), archiepiscopal of Aschaffenburg, on his bier, dressed in his habit and surrounded by his regalia. Line engraving with etching.
  • Pompe funebri. Di tutte le nationi del mondo. Raccolte dalle storie sagre, et profane / Dal Sr. Dottre. Francesco Perucci.
  • Musicians playing at a Polterabend or eve-of-wedding party. Coloured lithograph.
  • The ceremonies and religious customs of the various nations of the known world. Together with historical annotations, and several curious discourses... / Written originally in French, and illustrated with a large number of folio copper plates ... designed by Mr. Bernard Picart ... Faithfully translated into English, by a gentleman some time since of St. John's College in Oxford.
  • A congregation of Jewish mourners lowering a coffin into a grave during a funeral. Engraving by B. Picart, ca. 1733.
  • Bombay (Mumbai): a Parsee (Parsi) "Tower of silence" where the bodies of the dead are exposed to vultures. Photograph.
  • Schucha, Caucasus: a funeral procession of men holding swords. Wood engraving, ca. 1870.
  • A celebration party is given in honour of a newly-married couple. Engraving by B. Picart after himself.
  • The washing of poor men's feet by the Pope on Holy Thursday. Etching after B. Picart.
  • A funeral procession following a coffin, laid out on a bier, into a church. Etching by B. Picart, 1724.
  • The funeral procession of the Duke of Wellington passing Apsley House in London in 1852. Lithograph by A. Maclure.
  • A Chinese funeral scene: male and female mourners are shown kneeling beside the body of an old man, who lies on a table. Gouache on rice paper, China, 1800/1900.
  • The funeral procession of the Duke of Wellington passing Trafalgar Square in London in 1852. Lithograph by A. Maclure.
  • A corpse is dressed in grave clothes and layed out for mourners to visit. Etching with engraving.
  • The funeral procession of the Duke of Wellington arriving at St. Paul's Cathedral in London in 1852. Lithograph by A. Maclure.
  • The funeral of the Duke of Wellington in St. Paul's Cathedral in London in 1852. Lithograph by A. Maclure.