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Hong Kong: the Parsee Cemetery, Happy Valley. Photograph by W.P. Floyd, ca. 1873.
Floyd, William Pryor.Date: [between 1800 and 1899]Reference: 29704i
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The Assumption of the Virgin Mary; below the apostles crowd around her empty tomb. Drawing by F. Rosaspina, c. 1830, after Agostino Carracci.
Agostino CarracciReference: 25352i
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Livor mortis zine : party hits. Vol. 2.
Ruttley, StephenDate: 2018
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O sredstvakh" k" preduprezhdenīi︠u︡ pogrebenīi︠a︡ obmershikh".
Date: 1846
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The assumption of Mary (the Blessed Virgin). Drawing by F. Rosaspina, c. 1830, after Annibale Carracci.
Annibale CarracciReference: 11769i
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The Spitalfields project / Council for British Archaeology.
Date: 1993
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Tomb effigies of William Bradbrige, his wife Alice, and their fourteen children. Engraving.
Reference: 46842i
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Notae ferales : a few words on the modern system of interment, its evils and their remedy / by Charon.
Charon.Date: 1851
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Earth to earth : a plea for a change of system in our burial of the dead / by Francis Seymour Haden.
Francis Seymour HadenDate: [1875?]
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M0015095: Iron Age grave goods
Date: August 1956Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/134/82
Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
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Piety and danger : popular ritual, epidemics, and medical reforms in Lima, Peru, 1750-1860 / by Adam Warren.
Warren, AdamDate: [2004]
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M0015091: Diagram of a pit burial at Liury-sur-Vesle, Marne, France
Date: August 1956Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/134/78
Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
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M0015094: Illustration of an Iron Age grave at Aylesford, Kent
Date: August 1956Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/134/81
Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
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A letter to John Abernethy, Esq : written in consequence of a paragraph which appeared in most of the London papers, stating his having addressed : "A letter to the Secretary of State, on the necessity of repealing the late act of parliament which subjects resurrection men (as they are called) to severe punishment for violating the sanctuary of the tomb" / by Humanus.
Date: 1823
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Miscellany: French language material, 19th-20th centuries
Date: 1801-1930Reference: MS.7317
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Men burying the bodies of plague victims in a pit. Engraving by S. Davenport, 1835, after G. Cruikshank.
George CruikshankDate: 1 July 1835Reference: 6921i
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The Assumption of the Virgin. Engraving by G. Frezza, 1728, after C. Maratta, 1707.
Carlo MarattaDate: An. 1728Reference: 21596i
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Scheintot : ein Lesebuch mit Texten aus drei Jahrhunderten / gesammelt und herausgegeben von Udo Andraschke.
Date: 2020
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Christ's body is carried to its tomb. Etching after Raphael, 1506-7.
RaphaelReference: 23221i
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Report of the Improvement Committee of the Hon. the Commissioners of Sewers of the City of London, on city burial-places : with the report of the Medical Officer of Health thereupon.
City of London (England). Commissioners of Sewers. Improvement Committee.Date: 1852
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Circular, que dirige el Señor Gobernador de la Sagrada Mitra á los parrocos, eclesiásticos, y fieles cristianos del Arzobispado de México, sobre erección de cementerios fuera de las poblaciones / [Isidoro Sainz de Alfaro y Beaumont].
Sainz de Alfaro y Beaumont, IsidoroDate: 1809
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Christ's body is carried to its tomb; lamenting followers stand watching. Line engraving by C.J. Visscher after A. Dürer.
Albrecht DürerReference: 23220i
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Contemplating corpses : the dead body in American culture, 1870-1920 / Karen Pomeroy Flood.
Flood, Karen Pomeroy.Date: 2001
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The apostles watch the Assumption of the Virgin. Etching by S. Pacini after A.D. Gabbiani.
Anton Domenico GabbianiReference: 21275i
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The resurrected Christ rises over terrified soldiers. Engraving after A. Dürer, 1512.
Albrecht DürerDate: 1512Reference: 23547i

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Hong Kong: the Parsee Cemetery, Happy Valley. Photograph by W.P. Floyd, ca. 1873.

The Assumption of the Virgin Mary; below the apostles crowd around her empty tomb. Drawing by F. Rosaspina, c. 1830, after Agostino Carracci.

Livor mortis zine : party hits. Vol. 2.

O sredstvakh" k" preduprezhdenīi︠u︡ pogrebenīi︠a︡ obmershikh".

The assumption of Mary (the Blessed Virgin). Drawing by F. Rosaspina, c. 1830, after Annibale Carracci.

The Spitalfields project / Council for British Archaeology.

Tomb effigies of William Bradbrige, his wife Alice, and their fourteen children. Engraving.

Notae ferales : a few words on the modern system of interment, its evils and their remedy / by Charon.

Earth to earth : a plea for a change of system in our burial of the dead / by Francis Seymour Haden.

M0015095: Iron Age grave goods

Piety and danger : popular ritual, epidemics, and medical reforms in Lima, Peru, 1750-1860 / by Adam Warren.

M0015091: Diagram of a pit burial at Liury-sur-Vesle, Marne, France

M0015094: Illustration of an Iron Age grave at Aylesford, Kent

Miscellany: French language material, 19th-20th centuries

Men burying the bodies of plague victims in a pit. Engraving by S. Davenport, 1835, after G. Cruikshank.

The Assumption of the Virgin. Engraving by G. Frezza, 1728, after C. Maratta, 1707.

Scheintot : ein Lesebuch mit Texten aus drei Jahrhunderten / gesammelt und herausgegeben von Udo Andraschke.

Christ's body is carried to its tomb. Etching after Raphael, 1506-7.

Report of the Improvement Committee of the Hon. the Commissioners of Sewers of the City of London, on city burial-places : with the report of the Medical Officer of Health thereupon.

Circular, que dirige el Señor Gobernador de la Sagrada Mitra á los parrocos, eclesiásticos, y fieles cristianos del Arzobispado de México, sobre erección de cementerios fuera de las poblaciones / [Isidoro Sainz de Alfaro y Beaumont].

Christ's body is carried to its tomb; lamenting followers stand watching. Line engraving by C.J. Visscher after A. Dürer.

Contemplating corpses : the dead body in American culture, 1870-1920 / Karen Pomeroy Flood.

The apostles watch the Assumption of the Virgin. Etching by S. Pacini after A.D. Gabbiani.

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