Ritual act of placing a dead person into the ground

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Saint Cecilia: she enables the bodies of Christian martyrs to be buried. Engraving by G. Fabbri after D.M. Fratta after G. Cavedone.

Jesus Christ raises Lazarus from his tomb. Coloured woodcut, ca. 1510.

Christ is laid into a tomb. Lithograph by M. Fanoli after E.R. Wehnert, 1849.

Boer War: the grave of men of the Naval Brigade who were killed in the battle of Graspan. Halftone, c. 1899, after H. E. Miles.

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].

Burying the dead during the plague of 1665. Etching by C. Grignion after S. Wale.

The Assumption of the Virgin Mary. Engraving by S. Scafa.

The resurrected Christ rises over terrified soldiers. Engraving after A. Dürer, 1512.

The funeral of Mrs Susannah Wesley at Bunhill Fields, the Methodist cemetery: a key to the identities of the mourners. Etching.

Boer War: the grave of those killed at Bronkhuis Spruit, with men standing round. Line engraving, c. 1901.

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

De sepultura

Lamentation over the dead Christ on the mount of Golgotha. Woodcut by J.B. Jackson, 1738, after Rembrandt.

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.

The Assumption of the Virgin. Etching by G.M. Mitelli after A. Carracci.

Greek burial customs / Donna C. Kurtz and John Boardman.

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Burial

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De sepultura

Lamentation over the dead Christ on the mount of Golgotha. Woodcut by J.B. Jackson, 1738, after Rembrandt.

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.

The Assumption of the Virgin. Etching by G.M. Mitelli after A. Carracci.

Greek burial customs / Donna C. Kurtz and John Boardman.

Burial

Images from the collections

Images referencing Burial

Works from the collections

De sepultura

Lamentation over the dead Christ on the mount of Golgotha. Woodcut by J.B. Jackson, 1738, after Rembrandt.

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.

The Assumption of the Virgin. Etching by G.M. Mitelli after A. Carracci.

Greek burial customs / Donna C. Kurtz and John Boardman.

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