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  • The coffin containing the remains of Mr. Peabody on display in the chapel on board of the ship "The Monarch". Wood engraving, 1869.
  • A poor London street strewn with hopeless drunkards and lined with gin shops and a flourishing pawnbroker. Engraving, c. 1751, after W. Hogarth.
  • Various rites and cermonies for the burial of a pope, including the catafalque during the funeral and the funeral procession. Engraving by B Picart, 1724.
  • Christ raises the widow's son from the dead. Etching by A. Tardieu after Guilbaut.
  • The exhumed corpse of the French King Henry IV standing bandaged and upright in a coffin in the vaults of the Basilica of Saint-Denis. Line engraving with etching by E. Bovinet, A. Chataigner and T.B. de Jolimont after E.H. Langlois.
  • The funeral ceremony of Charles Darwin at Westminster Abbey, 26 April 1882. Wood engraving.
  • William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, lying in state. Etching, 1778.
  • The funeral procession of King Philip of Valois, King of France, in 1350. Coloured lithograph, 1845.
  • The refurbishment (or building) of a Lock Hospital; men with various ailments are stepping out of Pandora's box; a rich, smiling, doctor drives by in a carriage. Coloured etching by T. Williamson, 1802.
  • A procession of publicans and a beggar following the coffin of Madam Geneva; attacking the Act preventing distillers from retailing or selling gin to unlicensed premises. Engraving, 1751.
  • The burial of those who drowned in a river on the Scilly Isles. Wood engraving.
  • A congregation of Russian mourners preparing a corpse for burial. Engraving with etching by B. Picart, 1732.
  • Christ raises the widow's son from the dead. Engraving by W.H. Mote, 1846, after J. Franklin after J.F. Overbeck.
  • The coffin of Princess Amelia. Coloured engraving.
  • The wheel of fortune (left); a medieval lead coffin (right). Line engraving by J. Swaine after T. Hollis.
  • Members of different brotherhoods carrying a coffin during a procession. Coloured lithograph by Gatti and G. Dura after G. Dura, 1834.
  • A congregation of Jewish mourners lowering a coffin into a grave during a funeral. Engraving by B. Picart, ca. 1733.
  • A large man contemplating a child's coffin. Coloured etching.
  • A doctor, straddled by a skeleton, holds a full purse in his hands; signifying that he lives well off others' deaths. Coloured lithograph by G. Engelmann.
  • A coffin decorated with skulls and wreaths of flowers. Woodcut, 1720.
  • 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 John of Lyon. Coloured lithograph.
  • 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.
  • Monks carrying a corpse in a religious funeral procession, passers-by pay respect. Coloured aquatint.
  • A drunken man at home with his starving and ruined family. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1847, after himself.
  • Two leaden cists containing the remains of Gundrada, the daughter of William the Conqueror and her husband William de Warren. Chalk lithograph by F.W. Woledge after R.H. Nibbs, 1845.
  • The transferral of the coffin of Napoleon III to Chiselhurst in 1878. Wood engraving, ca. 1878.
  • Christ raises the widow's son from the dead. Engraving by J. Dambrun, 1793, after J.M. Moreau.
  • Christ raises the widow's son from the dead. Wood engraving by F. Obermann.
  • A man cavorting with a young woman, while his recently deceased wife lies in a coffin in the background. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1802.