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  • A young woman faints on hearing the news of the death of General Wallenstein (?). Line engraving with etching by Peter Carl Geissler.
  • Joseph's brothers show his coat, apparently soaked in his blood, to Jacob, who mourns. Etching.
  • The body of Saint Bruno is laid out in state and surrounded by mourning Carthusian monks. Etching with engraving after E. Le Sueur.
  • Christ is laid into a tomb. Lithograph by M. Fanoli after E.R. Wehnert, 1849.
  • People decorating the graves of their relatives in a cemetery in Italy for the celebration of All Souls. Gouache painting by Reginald Cleaver.
  • A lady fainting after bloodletting. Oil painting after Eglon Hendrick van der Neer.
  • The funeral of Mrs Susannah Wesley at Bunhill Fields, the Methodist cemetery: a key to the identities of the mourners. Etching.
  • The four holy women lament over the dead Christ. Line engraving by Agostino Carracci, 1598, after Annibale Carracci, 1597.
  • An infant dies, surrounded by mourners. Engraving.
  • The crucifixion of Christ; the three Maries lament. Etching by W. Unger after R. van der Weyden.
  • A male corpse is wrapped in linen and entombed while a funeral cortège proceeds into a church in the background. Etching with engraving by G. Spilberg after C. de Passe.
  • A man shielding his eyes from the body of a dead AIDS victim; advertisement a mourning procession for AIDS patients in Berlin Colour lithograph.
  • Christ's body is carried to its tomb. Etching after Raphael, 1506-7.
  • A physician gazing in amazement at a urine sample of an elderly female patient who is seated near him in a richly furnished room. Engraving by J.B. Fosseyeux after F. Giani after G. Dou.
  • Visiting the sick: a grieving woman bends over a praying patient. Tinted aquatint by F.C. Lewis, 1831, after J. Flaxman.
  • Visiting the sick: a grieving woman bends over a praying patient. Tinted aquatint by F.C. Lewis, 1831, after J. Flaxman.
  • A man kneeling and praying at a tomb in a cemetery is joined by another gentleman. Line engraving by Taylor after J. Thurston.
  • People crowd around a dying person's bed in grief while final rites are being read. Stipple engraving by N. Schiavonetti, 1812, after R. Westall.
  • An Egyptian father holding the body of his dead young son in his lap while the mother of the boy buries her head in his lap. Etching by A. Mongin after a painting by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema.
  • Saint Mary Magdalene clasps her hands before the crucified Christ. Watercolour painting.
  • A woman has just died: one man breaks the news to another. Wood engraving.
  • The crucifixion of Christ; Saint John and the four women lament. Engraving by Wierix after A. Dürer, 1509.
  • Achilles mourning the death of Patroclus. Stipple engraving by William Wynne Ryland after Angelica Kauffman, 1777.
  • Four pallbearers in Mexican dress carrying a coffin behind a priest into a church. Coloured lithograph.
  • A young woman wearing a crown deposists a flower garland on a tomb and burns incense on a stone nearby. Line engraving.
  • A woman weeping over her dead lover. Drawing, c. 1793.
  • A distressed young woman leaning on a tombstone in a graveyard. Etching with engraving.
  • The dead Christ is lamented by his mother and disciples. Crayon-manner print by A. Leroy, 1853, after Raphael.
  • The massacre of the innocents. Etching by F.P. Massau after J.F. Overbeck, 1843.
  • Symbols of death and mourning to mark World AIDS Day 1997. Colour lithograph, 1997.