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  • A congregation of Russian mourners preparing a corpse for burial. Engraving with etching by B. Picart, 1732.
  • The funeral of Albert Prince Consort, in St George's Chapel, Windsor. Wood engraving, 1861.
  • David Livingstone's grave at Westminster Abbey. Wood engraving by H. Harral.
  • Christ raises the widow's son from the dead. Engraving by W.H. Mote, 1846, after J. Franklin after J.F. Overbeck.
  • Boer War: a funeral on board a ship at night with officers and crew standing round the body. Watercolour with gouache by W. T. Maud, 1899.
  • 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.
  • The body of Vehiatua II, chief of Teahupo'o, lying in state in Tahiti two years after his death, as encountered by Captain Cook on his third voyage (1777-1780). Coloured soft-ground etching by J. Webber, 1789.
  • Calcutta, West Bengal: young men standing by a funeral pyre on which they have placed the dead body of a man. Photograph.
  • The Royal Hospital, Chelsea: people attending the lying-in-state of the Duke of Wellington. Wood engraving, 1852.
  • Members of different brotherhoods carrying a coffin during a procession. Coloured lithograph by Gatti and G. Dura after G. Dura, 1834.
  • Four pallbearers in Mexican dress carrying a coffin behind a priest into a church. Coloured lithograph.
  • A congregation of Jewish mourners lowering a coffin into a grave during a funeral. Engraving by B. Picart, ca. 1733.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich: visitors in the Painted Hall, with Horatio Nelson's catafalque. Coloured aquatint by J. Bluck after A. C. Pugin and T. Rowlandson, 1810.
  • The funeral procession of Queen Elizabeth I, including the Earl of Worcester and Sir Walter Raleigh. Engraving by J. Basire after a drawing by William Camden, 1791.
  • The dead Christ is lamented by his mother and disciples. Crayon-manner print by A. Leroy, 1853, after Raphael.
  • Daniel Lambert was born at Leicester on the 13th March, 1770 ...
  • The funeral service of the Duke of Orleans at Dreux prior to his burial, 1842. Lithograph by Grenier de Saint Martin and I-L. Deroy after N.J. Kellin, 1842.
  • 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.
  • Your rights in the AIDS era. 11, Acting as executor / Immunity.
  • 8th Xhosa War: the funeral of a British war victim under torchlight on the field. Lithograph, ca. 1852.
  • The funeral of the Duc d'Orleans at Paris. Lithograph by J. Arnout after V.J. Adam.
  • The funeral procession of Queen Elizabeth (Elizabeth of York) in 1503. Etching with engraving, 1784.
  • A Lutheran funeral in the city of Augsburg. Engraving by B. Picart, 1732, after Catherine Sperling.
  • The funeral procession of Queen Elizabeth I, including the Children of the Chapel and the Sergeant of the Vestry. Engraving by J. Basire after William Camden, 1791.
  • Samson's crushed body is borne away by his brethren. Engraving by J. Audran after F. Verdier, 1698.
  • Your rights in the AIDS era. 11, Acting as executor / Immunity.
  • 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.
  • A dog and a horse attending the funeral of their master, an officer in the army. Lithograph.
  • A pregnant woman receives an abortifacient draught from a peasant "wise woman"; she falls ill but the physician cannot save her life; her funeral is attended by her family and neighbours. Colour lithograph by S. I︠a︡guzhinskiĭ, 1925.