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Cemeteries

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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.
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    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.

    Webber, John, 1751-1793. | Date: [1784] | Reference: 566635i
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    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.

    Chéron, Louis, 1655-1725. | Reference: 18340i
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    A man and a boy contemplating gravestones in a cemetery. Line engraving by J.M. Delattre after J.H. Ramberg.

    Ramberg, Johann Heinrich, 1763-1840. | Reference: 44395i
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    Bodysnatchers in a church cemetery disturbed by the braying of an ass. Mezzotint, 1771.

    | Date: 2 May 1771 | Reference: 25643i
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    Grave of Alphonse Bertillon. Photograph.

    | Reference: 561871i
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