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Funeral service

Images

  • Boer War: a funeral on board a ship at night with officers and crew standing round the body. Watercolour with gouache by W. T. Maud, 1899.
  • The funeral ceremony for Lord Nelson in Saint Paul's Cathedral in 1806. Aquatint by N.I.W.C. Heideloff and J. Bluck after A.D. Macquin, 1806.
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Catalogue

    • Archives and manuscripts
    • Online

    M0006285: Illustration of an Ancient Egyptian funeral barge

    | Date: May 1939 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/52/66
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
    • Pictures

    World War I: a chaplain reading the funeral service over the body of a dead soldier in France. Photograph and gouache drawing by F. Matania, ca. 1917.

    Matania, Fortunino, 1881-1963. | Date: 1916-1918 | Reference: 583822i
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Boer War: a funeral on board a ship at night with officers and crew standing round the body. Watercolour with gouache by W. T. Maud, 1899.

    Maud, W. T., 1865-1903. | Date: [1899] | Reference: 23709i
    • Archives and manuscripts
    • Online

    M0006252: Depiction of an Attic funeral from a plemochoe

    | Date: May 1939 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/52/34
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
    • Books

    Reforming the art of dying : the ars moriendi in the German Reformation (1519-1528) / Austra Reinis.

    Reinis, Austra. | Date: [2007], ©2007
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