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  • 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.
  • Franco-Prussian War: peasants going to bury the dead from the Battle of Worth. Wood engraving.
  • Boer War: soldiers' graves at Rondesbosch decorated with floral tributes for Easter. Halftone, c. 1900, after H. S. Smith.
  • The apostles gathered around the empty tomb of Mary on her Assumption. Etching with aquatint by C.M. Metz after L. Cardi.
  • The burial of Atala outside her cave in the mountains. Stipple print with etching by J.P. Simon after J.B. Mallet.
  • Report to Her Majesty's principal secretary of state for the Home Department from the Poor Law Commissioners, on an inquiry into the sanitary condition of the labouring population of Great Britain; with appendices. Presented to both Houses of Parliament, by command of Her Majesty, July, 1842 / [by Edwin Chadwick].
  • Burying the victims of the plague in 1665. Engraving by Page after S. Wale.
  • The apostles around the empty tomb watch the Assumption of the Virgin. Engraving.
  • The Assumption of the Virgin. Etching by G.M. Mitelli after A. Carracci.
  • Crimean War, Scutari: British Hospital and Burial Ground. Tinted lithograph by J. Needham, 1857, after Lieutenant R.C. Glover.
  • The resurrected Christ rises over terrified soldiers. Watercolour painting.
  • World War One: two scenes from a hospital ship, a burial service and slightly wounded men on deck. Two halftones, c. 1916, after photographs.
  • The funeral procession of Queen Elizabeth (Elizabeth of York) in 1503. Etching with engraving, 1784.
  • The Assumption of the Virgin Mary; below the apostles crowd around her empty tomb. Drawing by F. Rosaspina, c. 1830, after Agostino Carracci.
  • Crimean War: Florence Nightingale and Mr Bracebridge at Cathcart's Hill burial ground. Tinted lithograph after W. Simpson.
  • Jesus Christ raises Lazarus from his tomb. Coloured woodcut, ca. 1510.
  • 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.
  • The apostles around the empty tomb watch the Assumption of the Virgin. Engraving after J. Boeckhorst.
  • The grave of John Keats in the Protestant cemetery of Rome, Italy. Etching by J.L. Chapman, 1863.
  • Rizpah keeps watch in the tranquil night over the decaying bodies of her sons. Mezzotint by R. Dunkarton and J.M.W. Turner, 1812, after the latter.
  • Hong Kong: the Protestant Cemetery, Happy Valley. Photograph by W.P. Floyd, ca. 1873.
  • The Assumption of the Virgin Mary. Engraving.
  • The heavens open on the day of judgement; Christ appears above the coast of the Netherlands. Engraving, 16th century.
  • The funeral procession for a royal prince, and the cremation of a royal prince. Etching with engraving.
  • The funeral of Mrs Susannah Wesley at Bunhill Fields, the Methodist cemetery. Mezzotint by S. Gimber, 1865, after D. Woolstenhome.
  • The apostles around the empty tomb watch the Assumption of the Virgin. Engraving.
  • Crimean War: cityscape view of hospital and cemetary at Scutari. Coloured lithograph by E. Walker after W. Simpson.
  • Christ, praying in the light, raises Lazarus from his tomb. Etching after J. Lievens, 1631.
  • Christ raises Lazarus from his tomb. Etching by S. Castiglione, 1645.
  • The burial of Saint Boniface. Lithograph by J. Unger after J. von Schraudolph.