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Last words

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  • Visiting the sick: a grieving woman bends over a praying patient. Tinted aquatint by F.C. Lewis, 1831, after J. Flaxman.
  • Visiting the sick: a grieving woman bends over a praying patient. Tinted aquatint by F.C. Lewis, 1831, after J. Flaxman.
  • People crowd around a dying person's bed in grief while final rites are being read. Stipple engraving by N. Schiavonetti, 1812, after R. Westall.
  • A dying man in bed being read the last rites. Lithograph by F. Piloty after L. Bramer.
  • Antiochus IV of Syria, sick and injured by a fall from his chariot, dictates his will as surgeons bandage his leg. Etching by N. Hallé, 1738.
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    A man suffering from dropsy dictating his will while a physician takes his pulse, he is surrounded by his wife and friends. Engraving.

    | Reference: 21623i
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    Truth brought to light, or, The last words of a dying-man : being the speech of William Dillon Esquire, executed the twenty fifth of February, 1662, for the death of J. Web, lately killed in a frey in Long-Acre.

    Dillon, William | Date: [1662]
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    World War II: a soldier refusing to use anti-mosquito cream: they are his last words, as he dies of malaria. Colour lithograph by Stacey Hopper, ca. 1944.

    Hopper, Stacey, 1909-1996. | Date: [1944] | Reference: 584187i
    Part of: A.M.D. poster
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    A young man lies dying, a woman weeps as she holds his hand, an hourglass stands on the table. Coloured lithograph by J. Bouvier.

    Bouvier, Jules, active 1842-1865. | Reference: 17329i
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    An account of the behaviour of Sir John Fenwick, at his execution on Tower-Hill : with the copy of the paper delivered by him to the sheriffs of London, &c.

    | Date: 1697
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