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A cigarette compared with a nail being driven into a coffin; representing the lethal effect of smoking. Colour lithograph after K. Erol, 1972.
Erol, Kuba.Date: [1972?]Reference: 660217i- Pictures
A group of mourners visit a coffin layed out on a bier in a chapel and accept the gift of wine and bread as part of the funeral rites. Etching by B. Picart, 1724.
Picart, Bernard, 1673-1733.Date: 1724Reference: 44194i- Pictures
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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.
Date: 25 December 1869Reference: 44326i- Books
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The lawyer's answer to his own question. A sermon, preached in the meeting-house, of the First Congregational Society, in Newburyport, February 9th, 1794. By Ebenezer Coffin, A.B. Pastor of the church at Brunswick. Published by particular desire. [Six lines of Scripture texts]
Coffin, Ebenezer, 1769-1816.Date: [1794]- Pictures
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A coffin layed out on a bier in a chapel surrounded by a choir. Etching by B. Picart, 1724.
Picart, Bernard, 1673-1733.Date: 1724Reference: 44196i- Pictures
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Members of different brotherhoods carrying a coffin during a procession. Coloured lithograph by Gatti and G. Dura after G. Dura.
Dura, Gaetano.Reference: 44240i- Pictures
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Members of different brotherhoods carrying a coffin during a procession. Coloured lithograph by Gatti and G. Dura after G. Dura.
Dura, Gaetano.Reference: 44241i- Pictures
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The coffin of Princess Amelia. Coloured engraving.
Date: 1810Reference: 44482i- Pictures
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A funeral in a French church: the coffin is sprayed with holy water and lowered into the grounds of the church. Etching by B. Picart, 1724.
Picart, Bernard, 1673-1733.Date: 1724Reference: 44197i- Pictures
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Members of different brotherhoods carrying a coffin during a procession. Coloured lithograph by Gatti and G. Dura after G. Dura, 1834.
Dura, Gaetano.Date: 1834Reference: 44239i- Pictures
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The wheel of fortune (left); a medieval lead coffin (right). Line engraving by J. Swaine after T. Hollis.
Hollis, Thomas, 1818-1843.Date: 1840Reference: 4554i- Books
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Medical botany : a course of lectures delivered at Sussex Hall, during 1850 / by A.I. Coffin.
Coffin, A. I. (Albert Isaiah)Date: [1851?]- Books
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The uncertainty of the signs of death, and the danger of precipitate interments and dissections, demonstrated, I. From the known Laws of the Animal Oeconomy. II. From the Structure of the Parts of the Human Body. and, III. From a great Variety of amusing and well-attested Instances of Persons who have return'd to Life in their Coffins, in their Graves, under the Hands of the Surgeons, and after they had remain'd apparently dead for a considerable Time in the Water. With Proper Directions, both for preventing such Accidents, and repairing the Misfortunes brought upon the Constitution by them. To the whole is added, a curious and entertaining account of the funeral solemnities of many ancient and modern nations, exhibiting the Precautions they made use of to ascertain the Certainty of Death. Illustrated with copper plates.
Winslow, Jacques-Bénigne, 1669-1760.Date: MDCCXLVI. [1746]- Digital Images
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Interment of the dead, a dictate of natural affection, sanctioned by the word of God, and the examples of the good in every age. A sermon delivered in Ipswich, second parish, July 23, 1818, on the occasion of reinterring the coffins which had been robbed of their contents / By Robert Crowell. Preached and published at the particular request of the inhabitants of the place.
Crowell, Robert, 1787-1855.Date: 1818- Digital Images
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A sermon, preached before His Honor Moses Gill, Esq. lieutenant-governor, the Honourable, the Council, Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. May 29, 1799, being the day of general election. By Rev. Paul Coffin, A.M. Pastor of the churc in Buxton.
Coffin, Paul, 1738-1821.Date: MDCCXCIX. [1799]- Pictures
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An old man in a top hat sitting in a wooden cart with wheels that resembles a coffin, pointing at a passage in the book he is reading. Etching by J.T. Smith.
Smith, John Thomas, 1766-1833.Reference: 44046i- Pictures
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The body of Earl Ferrers, displayed upright in his coffin at the Royal College of Surgeons. Engraving by Valois.
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The dance of death: the undertaker and the physician. Coloured aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1816.
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827.Date: 1816Reference: 31924iPart of: English dance of death, from the designs of Thomas Rowlandson, with metrical illustrations, by the author of "Dr Syntax".- Books
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Specification of Henry Revell Spicer : cases for preserving human remains.
Spicer, Henry Revell.Date: 1863- Digital Images
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The body of Earl Ferrers, displayed upright in his coffin at the Royal College of Surgeons. Engraving.
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The excellency of the Christian ministry. A discourse, delivered at the ordination of the Rev. Ebenezer Coffin, to the ministerial office, in the Christian church, at Brunswick, Jan. 23, 1794. By Paul Coffin, A.M. Pastor of the Church of Christ in Buxton.
Coffin, Paul, 1738-1821.Date: M,DCC,XCIV. [1794]