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  • A funeral in India(?) of a plague victim. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • Calcutta, West Bengal: a man about to set light to a funeral pyre, watched by men and boys. Photograph.
  • People crowd around a dying person's bed in grief while final rites are being read. Stipple engraving by N. Schiavonetti, 1812, after R. Westall.
  • The funeral procession of John of Lyon. Coloured lithograph.
  • The funeral of an Ashanti chief. Engraving by A. Thom, 1858.
  • The depositing of the remains of General Picton in the vault at St. Paul's Cathedral in London. Wood engraving, ca. 1859.
  • Monks lamenting the death of a man layed out in a coffin before them in a church. Coloured aquatint.
  • The body of the Duke of Wellington lying in state in Chelsea Hospital, London, in 1852. Lithograph by A. Maclure.
  • Part of the funeral procession of General Monk, Duke of Albemarle, in 1670. Wood engraving.
  • A native North American wearing an animal's head and feathered accessories with a schedule of events; an advertisement by Anishnawbe Health Toronto for The Joe Sylvester memorial Traditional Pow wow at Moss Park Armoury, Toronto on September 1 to 3, 1995. Colour lithograph by Joseph Sagutch, 1995.
  • A death-bed scene of man being read his last rites surrounded by his family, the priest and courtiers. Etching.
  • Assam: a burial place of the Konyak Naga tribe, with heads placed in sandstone hollows above ground. Photograph attributed to Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf, ca. 1937.
  • The funeral ceremony of the Earl of Beaconsfield in 1881. Wood engraving, 1881.
  • St. Mary's College, Oscott, Staffordshire. Etching by W. Radclyffe.
  • Two priests and their server follow a funeral procession carrying an open coffin into a church. Etching by J. Pesne after G.F. Barbieri, il Guercino.
  • Skulls and bones of friars, looking towards the altar of a chapel. Photograph.
  • Four pallbearers in Mexican dress carrying a coffin behind a priest into a church. Coloured lithograph.
  • A Lutheran funeral in the city of Augsburg. Engraving by B. Picart, 1732, after Catherine Sperling.
  • Skulls and skeletons of friars arranged columns around the walls of a chapel. Photograph.
  • Benares (Varanasi), Uttar Pradesh: corpses being burned and consigned to the river Ganges. Photograph.
  • Benares (Varanasi), Uttar Pradesh: corpses being burned and consigned to the river Ganges. Photograph.
  • Mount Zouquala, Abyssinia: hermits exorcising devils. Process print after F.C. Dickinson after Dr. Koelitz.
  • A young woman lies dying in her bed surrounded by a grieving family. Line engraving.
  • Philippines: the dead and smoked bodies of three people seated on the ground. Photograph, 19--.
  • Skeletons of priests (?), preserved and standing in rows wearing robes and berettas, depicted in a painting. Photograph.
  • The skeleton of a friar in the role of Death as the reaper, surrounded by skulls, ribs and vertebrae, in a chapel. Photograph.
  • A funerary monument (toupapow) with a corpse on it, encountered by Captain Cook in Tahiti on his second voyage, 1772-1775. Engraving by W. Woollett, 1777, after W. Hodges.
  • The burial of Adam: Adam is wrapped in linen sheets and lowered into the grave while a large crowd of mourners is looking on. Engraving by Jan Sadeler after M. de Vos.
  • Benares (Varanasi), Uttar Pradesh: corpses being burned and bathed. Photograph.
  • Holy Lake, Mount Zouquala, Abyssinia: pilgrims being lead to the lake in hope of a miracle. Watercolour drawing by F. Dadd, 1897.