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  • Cemetery of the Innocents in Paris. Wood engraving by F.L. Méaulle, .
  • A Japanese village in wooded country. Photograph by W.P. Floyd, ca. 1873.
  • People decorating the graves of their relatives in a cemetery in Italy for the celebration of All Souls. Gouache painting by Reginald Cleaver.
  • 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].
  • Crimean War: Florence Nightingale and Mr Bracebridge at Cathcart's Hill burial ground. Tinted lithograph after W. Simpson.
  • Higham Ferrers Church and Free-School, Northamptonshire, England. Line engraving.
  • Crimean War, Cathcart Hill: burial ground. Process print.
  • Two young ladies contemplating a tombstone in a graveyard. Mezzotint with engraving, 1803.
  • 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.
  • The burial of those who drowned in a river on the Scilly Isles. Wood engraving.
  • A man kneeling and praying at a tomb in a cemetery is joined by another gentleman. Line engraving by Taylor after J. Thurston.
  • The church of Saint Charles Borromeo (Karlskirche) and the chapel of Saint Roch, Vienna. Engraving by J.A. Corvinus after S. Kleiner.
  • Crowds of sick people gathered at the tomb of F. de Paris, St. Medard cemetery, in the hope of a miracle cure. Engraving.
  • Two men in a graveyard, one of them pointing to an ornate stone tomb, possibly to indicate the whereabouts of a third man to the second one. Etching attributed to J.W. Meil, 17--.
  • A man injects drugs into his arm as he leans back with his eyes shut against a wall; a man sitting beside a grave clutching a photograph of a woman and child; a warning about the dangers of drug abuse and AIDS by Programa Compañeros. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • Abbey of Fontevrault: the mortuary chapel. Lithograph by J. Basire after G. Bouet.
  • Crimean War: ruins of the British soldier's graveyard. Wood engraving by R.C.H?.
  • A writer (Pinelli?) resting, holding a book while sitting on a tombstone, his two dogs at his feet; a pyramid in the background. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1809.
  • Pembroke College, Oxford: with Martyr's Memorial in the background. Line engraving by H. Le Keux, 1837, after F. Mackenzie.
  • People tending to the graves at a Turkish burying ground at Sidon. Etching with engraving by J. Redaway after W.H. Bartlett, 1842.
  • 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.
  • Heriot's Hospital, Edinburgh Castle from Grey Friars Church yard, Edinburgh, Scotland. Line engraving by W. Woolnoth, 1836, after T. Allom.
  • A distressed young woman leaning on a tombstone in a graveyard. Etching with engraving.
  • Boer War: soldiers' graves at Rondesbosch decorated with floral tributes for Easter. Halftone, c. 1900, after H. S. Smith.
  • 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].
  • Bodysnatchers in a church cemetery disturbed by the braying of an ass. Mezzotint, 1771.
  • Church yard in Wotton, Surrey, with John Evelyn's monument. Engraving.
  • Crimean War, Scutari: British Hospital and Burial Ground. Tinted lithograph by J. Needham, 1857, after Lieutenant R.C. Glover.
  • College Gateway, Maidstone, Kent. Line engraving by H. Adlard after W.H. Bartlett.