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  • Four scenes with a skeleton: the skeleton directing an astronomer-alchemist, poisoning the drink of lovers, contemplating a flagellant, and taking away a man. Drawings attributed to H.K. Browne [Phiz].
  • Captain Ducie approaches the dead body of M. Platzoff. Process print after R. Taylor after M. L. Gow.
  • Mercury, an agent of the Terror, carries Capucin Chabot naked towards a furnace; recording the turnover of human life during the Terror in the French Revolution. Coloured aquatint, ca. 1794.
  • Death and the lady. Etching.
  • The death of Major Peirson in the battle of Jersey. Engraving by A. Kessler after J.S. Copley.
  • Cemetery of the Innocents in Paris. Wood engraving by F.L. Méaulle, .
  • A clock dial on which a skeleton holds an oil lamp. Drawing by Caleb Elwin, 1800.
  • A young woman faints on hearing the news of the death of General Wallenstein (?). Line engraving with etching by Peter Carl Geissler.
  • The coffin containing the remains of Mr. Peabody on display in the chapel on board of the ship "The Monarch". Wood engraving, 1869.
  • Hospital for Incurables, Blackwell Island, New York. Wood engraving by W.S.L. Jewett.
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Funeral rites and ceremonies
Christianity
Attitude to Death
Grief
Memento mori
Burial
Bereavement
Women in Christianity
Tombs
Plague