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  • Skulls and bones of friars, looking towards the altar of a chapel. Photograph.
  • Santa Maria della Concezione, Rome: skulls and skeletons of the friars arranged in arches and columns around the walls of the Convento dei Cappuccini. Photograph.
  • Memphis, Egypt: English travellers trapped in catacombs find the bodies of two Italian men who had previously been trapped there, and had starved to death: they fire their pistols at six ghostly figures; Arabs steal their horses. Etching with engraving by E. Kirkall, 1709.
  • Gentlemen carrying torches visiting catacombs in Paris. Coloured aquatint by R.B. Peake.
  • Skulls and skeletons of friars arranged columns around the walls of a chapel. Photograph.
  • Corpses standing against the walls of catacombs at Guanajuato, Mexico. Process print after C.C. Pierce & Co.
  • The burial vault of the Capuchins at Palermo. Oil painting by E.R., 1839.
  • 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.