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  • Elijah prays to resuscitate the widow's son. Line engraving by C. Heath, 1821, after R. Westall.
  • Christ raises the widow's son from the dead. Engraving by J. Dambrun, 1793, after J.M. Moreau.
  • Fujian, province, China: a pailou (memorial arch) dedicated to a virtuous widow. Photograph by John Thomson, 1870-1871.
  • Fujian, province, China: a pailou (memorial arch) dedicated to a virtuous widow. Photograph by John Thomson, 1870-1871.
  • Christ raises the son of the widow of Nain from the dead. Engraving by J. Matham after F. Zuccaro.
  • A crowd preparing for a suttee, or widow-burning: beside the Ganges (?) River. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • A burial suttee: a widow has been placed in a grave beside her dead husband. Engraving after B. Picart, 1729.
  • Elijah prays for life to be restored to the widow's son. Line engraving by O. Gatti, 1625, after Il Pordenone.
  • The widow's son, empty-eyed, returns to life at the prayer of Elijah. Engraving by W. Holl after B. West.
  • Christ raises the widow's son from the dead. Engraving by W.H. Mote, 1846, after J. Franklin after J.F. Overbeck.
  • Elijah restores the widow's son to his mother, who greets him with open arms. Drawing by R.T. Bone, ca. 1811.
  • The widow of Zarephath seeks assistance from the prophet Elijah; her son has fallen into a coma. Engraving, c. 17th century.
  • The widow's son, empty-eyed, returns to life at the prayer of Elijah. Coloured mezzotint by V. Green, 1799, after B. West.
  • Astronomy: various apocalyptic scenes, including a grieving widow, war, and the Duke of Wellington rejecting Harriet Winter [?]. Coloured lithograph, [c.1839?].
  • A grieving widow consoled by her young daughter; both standing before a picture propped up on an easel. Wood engraving by Horace Harral.
  • A sailor's widow listens while a woman reads her a letter. Coloured lithograph by J. Vallou de Villeneuve, 183?, after J.A. Franquelin.
  • 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.
  • Venus and Cupid descend from the clouds towards a widow of Ephesus and a soldier who is in love with her. Etching by W. Hollar.
  • Two men wearing masks club Hudibras, as Ralphos, removing his mask, and a widow (dressed in black), watch from a doorway. Engraving by William Hogarth.
  • A grieving young widow breastfeeds her infant child next to the dead body of its father, a soldier. Aquatint with engraving after H. Bunbury, 1783.
  • 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.
  • A grief-stricken widower holds his child while the spirit of its mother, seen only by the child, descends to impart her blessing to the father. Drawing.
  • An episode in Tristram Shandy: Uncle Toby looks into Widow Wadman's eye, as she holds it open for him. Line engraving by L. Stocks(?) after C.R. Leslie, 1831.
  • The widow of a murdered French envoy in Rome pleading for her life: a man tells her "We are Romans, we do not kill women". Etching after J.D. Schubert.
  • Crimean War: a guardian angel appearing to a widow mourning the death of her husband on the battlefield. Coloured aquatint by J. Harris, 1856, after O. Norie and W. Bullock Webster.
  • Crimean War: a guardian angel appearing to a widow mourning the death of her husband on the battlefield. Coloured aquatint by J. Harris, 1856, after O. Norie and W. Bullock Webster.
  • 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 (?).
  • Drunken and diseased people attending the wedding of William Huntington and the rich widow Sanderson; behind Huntington is a devil handing breeches to a hack journalist. Coloured etching by S. De Wilde, 1808.
  • A widow with her maid Betty consults a fortune-teller in the hope that he will predict whether she will marry again, and how many times. Etching by I. Taylor, 1785, after R. Corbould.
  • Invitation to a dinner of the Guardians of the Asylum for Female Orphans: with a scene of a soldier falling in battle, and a widow and daughters. Engraving by W. Skelton, 1822, after T. Stothard.