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  • The catafalque erected for the funeral service of King Victor Emmmanuel, in the Pantheon, Rome, in 1878. Wood engraving.
  • Two fashionable young women remarking a traditional funeral procession which passes them in the street. Drawing attributed to Eduard von Steinle.
  • A Jewish funeral outside the ancient Jerusalem. Etching.
  • New Swindon Institution and market, Swindon, Yorkshire. Wood engraving by W.E. Hodgkin, 1854, after E. Roberts.
  • A group of Greek women lamenting and mourning the dead at a burial site in Rama. Engraving possibly by B. Picart, ca. 1733.
  • The funeral procession of Charles James Fox passing through Palace Yard in London. Aquatint, 1806.
  • Funeral procession of a queen passing through Hammersmith in London. Etching with engraving by C. Canton after R. Banks.
  • A congregation of Jewish mourners lowering a coffin into a grave during a funeral. Engraving by B. Picart, ca. 1733.
  • Various rites and cermonies for the burial of a pope, including the catafalque during the funeral and the funeral procession. Engraving by B Picart, 1724.
  • Calcutta, West Bengal: a man about to scatter material from a bowl on a dead body lying on a funeral pyre, watched by women. Photograph.
  • A congregation of Russian mourners preparing a corpse for burial. Engraving with etching by B. Picart, 1732.
  • Calcutta, West Bengal: young men standing by a funeral pyre on which they have placed the dead body of a man. Photograph.
  • Members of different brotherhoods carrying a coffin during a procession. Coloured lithograph by Gatti and G. Dura after G. Dura, 1834.
  • A priest administering the sacrament of extreme unction to a dying woman. Wood engraving by N. Knilling.
  • A funeral procession carrying the corpse of an unmarried girl layed out on a bier through a village. Coloured lithograph by Gatti and G. Dura after G. Dura, 1851.
  • A dog and a horse attending the funeral of their master, an officer in the army. Lithograph.
  • Bombay (Mumbai): a body burning on a funeral pyre. Photograph.
  • A coffin layed out on a bier in a chapel surrounded by a choir. Etching by B. Picart, 1724.
  • Members of different brotherhoods carrying a coffin during a procession. Coloured lithograph after G. Dura.
  • 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.
  • Calcutta, West Bengal: young men placing the dead body of a man on a funeral pyre. Photograph.
  • Members of different brotherhoods carrying a coffin during a procession. Coloured lithograph by Gatti and G. Dura after G. Dura.
  • Mourners attending a burial where the coffin is about to be lowered into the ground. Stipple engraving by N. Schiavonetti after R. Westall, 1812.
  • Members of different brotherhoods carrying a coffin during a procession. Coloured lithograph by Gatti and G. Dura after G. Dura.
  • A funeral in a cemetery: a gentleman leads a distressed young lady to her coach. Stipple engraving.
  • Calcutta, West Bengal: the dead body of a man burning on a funeral pyre; a young man standing by. Photograph.
  • The funeral procession of the Dutch naval commander de Ruyter in 1677. Etching.
  • A funeral in the city of the Hague in Holland. Engraving with etching by B. Picart, 1732.
  • The Fosse Commune in the cemetery of Père La Chaise claiming their dead. Wood engraving.
  • Men washing the body of a recently deceased man in a Japanese bath-house. Watercolour painting, 18--.