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A priest gives a dying man his last rites. Coloured woodcut, 1493.
Date: 1493Reference: 33694i
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A priest performing a ceremony in a temporary chapel on a ship housing the remains of Napoleon Bonaparte. Lithograph by J. Arnout.
Arnout, Jean Baptiste, 1788-Reference: 46738i
Archives and manuscripts
Hébert, Michel Pierre Alexis (1799-1887)
Hébert, Michel Pierre Alexis, 1799-1887Date: 1855-1859Reference: MS.2822
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Three young children visiting their mother's grave in a cemetery. Line engraving with etching by E.F. Finden after R. Westall.
Westall, Richard, 1765-1836.Reference: 44408i
Books
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Der Scheintod. Vortrag gehalten im Deutschen gesellig-wissenschaftlichen Verein von New-York am 15. December 1886.
Garrigues, Henry Jacques, 1831-1913.Date: 1889
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The wounding of Lord Nelson on the deck of HMS Victory at the battle of Trafalgar. Engraving, 1814.
Date: 1814Reference: 548037i
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Burying the victims of the plague in 1665. Engraving by Page after S. Wale.
Wale, Samuel, -1786.Reference: 10072i
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Savitri pleading with Yama for her husband's life. Chromolithograph.
Reference: 26220i
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A believers triumph over death : exemplified in a relation of the last hours of Dr. Andrew Rivet and an account of divers other remarkable instances : being an history of the comfortable end and dying words of several eminent men, with other occasional passages, all tending to comfort Christians against the fear of death and prepare them for a like happy change.
Coxe, NehemiahDate: 1682
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A phrenologist holding a skull palpates a girl's skull, while her mother looks on. Lithograph by A-N. Delaunois after A. Debacq.
Debacq, Charles-Alexandre, 1804-1853.Date: 1800-1899Reference: 16178i
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The rape of Lucretia by Tarquin. Line engraving by C. Cort after Titian, 1571.
Titian, approximately 1488-1576.Date: 1571Reference: 42779i
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The nurse and the dying patient / Jeanne C. Quint.
Benoliel, Jeanne Quint.Date: 1967
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A naked man lies with his eyes closed with one foot touching a lit candle held by a golden cupid; he lies on his side floating above an array of gold gift-wrapped presents among other items with one arm raised towards a glowing gold star with a gold cloud bearing a cupid, a personified gold moon and a falling teddy bear; includes the message in Italian: 'excluded because of AIDS'; one of a series of posters by the AIDS-Hilfe Schweiz/Aide Suisse contre le SIDA/Aiuto AIDS Svizerro. Colour lithograph by Etienne Francey and Daniel Ammann.
Date: [between 1990 and 1999]Reference: 675045i
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The preserved recumbent body of Saint Margaret of Cortona (1247-1297), wearing a wreath. Line engraving with etching by G.B. Leonetti after a drawing by the Marquis Domenico Venutti, 1804.
Venutti, Domenico.Date: 1804Reference: 46646i
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Mary enters her Dormition holding a candle, surrounded by the apostles. Engraving.
Reference: 21251i
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A fiddler falls over in fright at a skeleton. Etching by J. Neagle after C. Edgeworth, 1801.
Edgeworth, Charlotte, 1783-1807.Date: March 25. 1801Reference: 36490i
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Saint Bonaventure resuscitates a dead child. Drawing by F. Rosaspina, c. 1830, after F.G. Gessi.
Gessi, Francesco, 1588-1649.Reference: 25606i
Part of: La Pinacoteca della Pontificia Accademia delle Belle Arti in Bologna
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The funeral of Mrs Susannah Wesley at Bunhill Fields, the Methodist cemetery. Mezzotint by S. Gimber, 1865, after D. Woolstenhome.
Woolstenholme, Dean, 1757-1837.Date: R. Owen jnrReference: 544363i
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The afflicted man's companion, or A directory for persons and families, afflicted with sickness or any other distress : with directions to the sick, both under and after affliction ; also, directions to the friends of the sick, and others who visit them ; and likewise to all, how to prepare both for sickness and death ; and how to be exercised at the time of dying ; to which is added, a collection of comfortable texts of Scripture, very suitable for dying believers ; the choice sayings of eminent dying saints ; the author's last advice to his wife and children : and his dying words, written by himself, and found among his papers after his death / by the Reverend Mr. John Willison, late Minister of the Gospel at Dundee ; very necessary for all families.
Willison, John, 1680-1750.Date: 1796
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A skeleton with snakes and rats. Etching by C. Grignion, 1821.
Date: 12th. March, 1821Reference: 35745i
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Namenlos doch nicht vergessen : in Köln sind schon mehr als einhundert Menschen an AIDS verstorben. Wir wollen sie nicht vergessen : Gedenkveranstaltung am 4. Juni 1988 auf dem Heinrich-Böll-Platz / AIDS-Hilfe Köln.
Date: 1988
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A skeleton gentleman at a ball asks a skeleton lady to dance; representing the effect of arsenical dyes and pigments in clothing and accessories. Wood engraving, 1862.
Date: February 8, 1862Reference: 36772i
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Simeon recognises the infant Jesus as saviour. Etching by C.W. Weisbrod after Rembrandt, 1627-8.
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, 1606-1669.Date: 1628Reference: 22109i
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Eudamidas dictating his will on his deathbed, leaving the care of his mother and daughter to two friends. Etching after N. Poussin.
Poussin, Nicolas, 1594?-1665.Reference: 38260i
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Saint Benedict: his soul ascending to heaven as a sign of his patronage of the dying. Line engraving, 17--.
Date: [between 1700 and 1799?]Reference: 586621i