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Watch-house at Lumphanan graveyard, Aberdeenshire.

A man walking along a country path is attacked by a bodysnatcher hiding behind a brick wall, who asphyxiates him by thrusting a heart-shaped plaster in his face. Coloured etching by Dickey Fubs, 1828.

Portraits of William Burke (1792-1829) and Helen McDougal (b. c. 1795), on trial in Edinburgh in 1828 for the West Port murders. Coloured etching, c. 1829.

Door open on Vault in graveyard at Udny, Aberdeenshire.

Bodysnatchers in a church cemetery disturbed by the braying of an ass. Mezzotint, 1771.

A nightwatchman disturbs a body-snatcher who has dropped the stolen corpse he had been carrying in a hamper, while the anatomist runs away. Etching with engraving by W. Austin, 1773.

Mortsafes at Kinnernie graveyard, Aberdeenshire.

William Burke (centre), Dr Alexander Monro III (top left), William Robertson (top right), Thomas Beveridge (lower left), Dr Robert Knox (lower right) Silhouettes, c. 1830.

Marietta, or, The two students : a tale of the dissecting room and "body snatchers" / by J.H. Robinson.

The trial of Wm. Burke & Helen M'Dougal, on Wednesday, December 24, 1828 : in the High Court of Justiciary, before the Right Honourable Lord Chief Justice Clerk, and Lords Pitmilly, Meadowbank, and Mackenzie, on an indictment for the wilful murder of Mary Patterson, James Wilson and Madgy M'Gonegal ... in the Canongate and West Port, Edinburgh, for the purpose of sale to the medical faculty.

Verses composed on the disgraceful traffic at present carried on of raising and selling the newly buried dead / William Smith.

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Bodysnatchers in a church cemetery disturbed by the braying of an ass. Mezzotint, 1771.

Portraits of William Burke (1792-1829) and Helen McDougal (b. c. 1795), on trial in Edinburgh in 1828 for the West Port murders. Coloured etching, c. 1829.

Marietta, or, The two students : a tale of the dissecting room and "body snatchers" / by J.H. Robinson.

Verses composed on the disgraceful traffic at present carried on of raising and selling the newly buried dead / William Smith.