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  • Sati (suttee): a woman immolating herself on her husband's funeral pyre. Gouache painting on mica by an Indian artist.
  • Sati (suttee): a widow immolating herself on her husband's funeral pyre as a large crowd watches. Gouache painting on mica by an Indian artist.
  • Murshidabad: monuments in memory of women who had died by sati. Coloured etching by William Hodges, 1788.
  • Sati (suttee): a widow immolating herself on her husband's funeral pyre, as a group of people look on. Gouache painting on mica by an Indian artist.
  • An Indian widow being led to suttee. Coloured etching, 1811.
  • A crowd preparing for a suttee, or widow-burning: beside the Ganges (?) River. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Suttee. Engraving after B. Picart, ca. 1730.
  • Suttee. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Ghat on the Ganges (?): a crowd preparing for a suttee, or widow-burning. Coloured aquatint by R.G. Reeve, J. Willis and H. Melville after R.M. Grindlay, ca. 1830 (?).
  • A burial suttee: a widow has been placed in a grave beside her dead husband. Engraving after B. Picart, 1729.
  • Suttee. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Suttee. Engraving by Walker, 1785, after S. Wale.
  • An Indian woman, about to be burned on her dead husband's funeral pyre. Watercolour drawing by Lady Malet, 1814.
  • Suttee. Engraving by Lester, 1820.
  • Suttee. Gouache painting by a painter of Thanjavur (Tanjore), ca. 1800.
  • A Hindu princess committing suttee against the wishes of the Emperor Akbar but with his reluctant consent. Gouache.
  • Suttee, with Lord Hastings shown as accepting bribes to allow its continuation. Coloured aquatint by T. Rowlandson, 1815, after Quiz.
  • Johann Guenther [Guinter]. Woodcut by T. Stimmer, 1590.
  • A man worshipping at the altar of Isis with a musical instrument and a plate with a snake, he is surrounded by a goose and a pomegranate; representing the month November. Engraving.
  • The Duke of Marlborough bursting out of his tomb to protest against a song about him which had become popular in France in 1782. Etching, 1783.
  • A skeleton in the pose of a classical river god surrounded by several sketches of river gods and other figures. Pen and ink drawing.
  • Saint Mary (the Blessed Virgin) with the Christ Child and Saint Anne. Engraving by P. Pontius after G. Seghers.
  • Saint Gregory the Great, wearing ecclesiastical dress and supported by two angels, is kneeling in prayer; angels above him. Engraving by J. Frey, 1733, after Annibale Carracci.
  • Athenians wearing masks celebrate the vintage by dancing around a statue of Bacchus and sacrificing a goat to him. Engraving by P. Lombard, 1654, after F. Cleyn.
  • Leaves and fruit of a kind of Mexican vanilla. Drawing by Thomas Malie, 1730.
  • The actor Guillot-Gorju in character as Scaramouche, in a theatrical caricature of a doctor. Coloured etching by A.E. Guillaumot, 1885, after J. Falck.