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Cemetery of the Innocents in Paris. Wood engraving by F.L. Méaulle, .

A Japanese village in wooded country. Photograph by W.P. Floyd, ca. 1873.

People decorating the graves of their relatives in a cemetery in Italy for the celebration of All Souls. Gouache painting by Reginald Cleaver.

Report to Her Majesty's principal secretary of state for the Home Department from the Poor Law Commissioners, on an inquiry into the sanitary condition of the labouring population of Great Britain; with appendices. Presented to both Houses of Parliament, by command of Her Majesty, July, 1842 / [by Edwin Chadwick].

Crimean War: Florence Nightingale and Mr Bracebridge at Cathcart's Hill burial ground. Tinted lithograph after W. Simpson.

Higham Ferrers Church and Free-School, Northamptonshire, England. Line engraving.

Crimean War, Cathcart Hill: burial ground. Process print.

Watch-house at Lumphanan graveyard, Aberdeenshire.

Two young ladies contemplating a tombstone in a graveyard. Mezzotint with engraving, 1803.

Crimean War: a guardian angel appearing to a widow mourning the death of her husband on the battlefield. Coloured aquatint by J. Harris, 1856, after O. Norie and W. Bullock Webster.

The burial of those who drowned in a river on the Scilly Isles. Wood engraving.

A man kneeling and praying at a tomb in a cemetery is joined by another gentleman. Line engraving by Taylor after J. Thurston.

A morai (place of burial) in Kauai, Hawaiian Islands, visited by Captain Cook on his third voyage (1777-1780). Engraving by D. Lerpinière after J. Webber, 1780/1785.

Jacob is taken to the cave in the field of Machpelah by a mournful procession; he wants to die in the spot bought by Abraham. Etching by L. du Guernier after L. Chéron.

A man and a boy contemplating gravestones in a cemetery. Line engraving by J.M. Delattre after J.H. Ramberg.

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

Grave of Alphonse Bertillon. Photograph.

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Cemeteries

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Works from the collections

A morai (place of burial) in Kauai, Hawaiian Islands, visited by Captain Cook on his third voyage (1777-1780). Engraving by D. Lerpinière after J. Webber, 1780/1785.

Jacob is taken to the cave in the field of Machpelah by a mournful procession; he wants to die in the spot bought by Abraham. Etching by L. du Guernier after L. Chéron.

A man and a boy contemplating gravestones in a cemetery. Line engraving by J.M. Delattre after J.H. Ramberg.

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

Grave of Alphonse Bertillon. Photograph.

Cemeteries

Images from the collections

Images referencing Cemeteries

Works from the collections

A morai (place of burial) in Kauai, Hawaiian Islands, visited by Captain Cook on his third voyage (1777-1780). Engraving by D. Lerpinière after J. Webber, 1780/1785.

Jacob is taken to the cave in the field of Machpelah by a mournful procession; he wants to die in the spot bought by Abraham. Etching by L. du Guernier after L. Chéron.

A man and a boy contemplating gravestones in a cemetery. Line engraving by J.M. Delattre after J.H. Ramberg.

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

Grave of Alphonse Bertillon. Photograph.

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