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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.
  • A man, half human and half skeleton. Coloured etching after R. Dighton, 17--.
  • 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.
  • The body of Saint Bruno is laid out in state and surrounded by mourning Carthusian monks. Etching with engraving after E. Le Sueur.
  • Death astride his horse is the hero of the battlefield. Etching.
  • Funeral procession of Horatio, Lord Nelson, from Greenwich to Whitehall in 1806. Etching with engraving, 1806.
  • Death-mask of a man, possibly of C. Heidegger. Line engraving with etching by J.H. Lips, 1779.
  • Christ is laid into a tomb. Lithograph by M. Fanoli after E.R. Wehnert, 1849.
  • Message from AIDS Fonds stating 1 million AIDS patients have died but hope remains for a medicine. Colour lithograph.
  • When pain is severe DF118 subdues the pain but not the patient : life, death, and the British.
  • An angel directs a dying man's attention towards an image of the Agony in the Garden of Gethsemane. Etching.
  • The presentation of the infant Jesus at the temple. Etching by A. Campanella, 1771, after Fra Bartolommeo.
  • A woman sitting by the bed of a dying man. Engraving by C. Warren after H. Corbould.
  • A Parisian street filled with the dead and dying. Etching by Desbrosses.
  • The port of Marseille during the plague in 1720. Coloured etching after M. Serre.
  • A poor London street strewn with hopeless drunkards and lined with gin shops and a flourishing pawnbroker. Engraving, c. 1751, after W. Hogarth.
  • A man rises from behind a gravestone as a skeleton in a shroud attempts to keep it closed. Etching by J. Haynes after J. Mortimer.
  • George Washington on his deathbed, 1799. Coloured engraving by J. Rodgers after Chapin, 1799.
  • A man and woman, semi-nude but bedecked with jewellery, accompanied by Death, are kneeling on a representation of the poor: in the background are factories with smoking chimneys. Lithograph after H. Schwaiger, ca. 1900.
  • The deathbed of Pope Pius VI. Engraving by A. Campanella after J. Beys, 1802.
  • People decorating the graves of their relatives in a cemetery in Italy for the celebration of All Souls. Gouache painting by Reginald Cleaver.
  • Burying the dead during the plague of 1665. Etching by C. Grignion after S. Wale.