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Coffins

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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.
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    The coffin of Princess Amelia. Coloured engraving.

    | Date: 1810 | Reference: 44482i
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    Christ raises the widow's son from the dead. Engraving by J. Barlow.

    | Reference: 23716i
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    The funeral procession of John of Lyon. Coloured lithograph.

    | Reference: 44303i
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    A coffin containing a foetus

    Birch, Martin, 1935-1982 | Date: December 1971 | Reference: 2851442i
    Part of: Papers of Edward Adamson (1911-1996)
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    Funeral of Lord Ranelagh at Fulham Church in London in 1885. Wood engraving, ca. 1885.

    | Date: 1885 | Reference: 44340i
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