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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.
  • Bodysnatchers in a church cemetery disturbed by the braying of an ass. Mezzotint, 1771.
  • 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.
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Cemeteries
Body-snatchers
Grave Robbing
History, 19th Century
Asphyxia
Trials (Murder)
Human anatomy
Murder
Great Britain
Murderers