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After the death or stillbirth of your baby : what has to be done? / Stillbirth & Neonatal Death Society.
Date: [1990?]
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Shanghai, China: a funeral procession, with people carrying banners. Photograph, 18--.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899]Reference: 664309i
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Rizpah protecting the bodies of her murdered sons Armoni and Mephibosheth. Watercolour after J.M.W. Turner.
J. M. W. TurnerReference: 33553i
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Skeletons of priests (?), preserved and standing in rows wearing robes and berettas, depicted in a painting. Photograph.
Date: [between 1910 and 1919?]Reference: 664104i
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A group of Greek women lamenting and mourning the dead at a burial site in Rama. Engraving possibly by B. Picart, ca. 1733.
Q559929Reference: 44226i
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The funeral procession of the Duke of Wellington passing Trafalgar Square in London in 1852. Lithograph by A. Maclure.
Maclure, A.Date: 1852Reference: 46830i
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Christ raises the widow's son from the dead. Engraving by J. Dambrun, 1793, after J.M. Moreau.
Jean-Michel MoreauDate: 1793Reference: 23720i
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Des sépultures / par Amaury Duval.
Amaury DuvalDate: An IX [1800 or 1801]
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The burial of Saint Dominic in Bologna in 1221: friars placing the corpse of Saint Dominic into a coffin in the presence of Cardinal Ugolinus. Line engraving by T. Wier and A. Tendi after a marble relief by C. Bianconi and J-B. Boudard.
Carlo BianconiReference: 44301i
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A procession following the coffin of David Livingstone in Southampton in 1873. Wood engraving.
Date: 1873Reference: 46756i
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Christ raises the widow's son from the dead. Etching by A. Tardieu after Guilbaut.
Reference: 23721i
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The funeral of French hegemony in Europe due to defeats under Louis XIV in the War of the Spanish Succession. Etching, ca. 1706.
Date: [1706?]Reference: 2138530i
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Detail of the funeral procession of Queen Elizabeth I, showing the "Gentlemen Pentioners" carrying flags and banners. Detail of an engraving by J. Basire after William Camden, 1791.
William CamdenDate: 23 April 1791Reference: 46663i
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The Royal Hospital, Chelsea: people attending the lying-in-state of the Duke of Wellington. Wood engraving, 1852.
Date: 1852Reference: 20757i
Books
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Pseudodoxia epidemica, or, Enquiries into very many received tenents, and commonly presumed truths. / By Thomas Brown Dr. of Physick. The fifth edition. With marginal observations, and a table alphabetical. Whereunto are now added two discourses the one of urn-burial, or sepulchrall urns, lately found in Norfolk. The other of the Garden of Cyrus, or network plantations of the antients. Both newly written by the same author.
Thomas BrowneDate: 1669
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Funeral of David Livingstone at Westminster Abbey; his coffin is carried by some of his former servants. Wood engraving by C.R.
Reference: 561733i
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The coffin containing the remains of Mr. Peabody on display in the chapel on board of the ship "The Monarch". Wood engraving, 1869.
Date: 25 December 1869Reference: 44326i
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The funeral procession of Queen Elizabeth I, including a gentleman usher with a white rod and the French Ambassador. Engraving by J. Basire after William Camden, 1791.
William CamdenDate: 23 April 1791Reference: 46662i
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Christ raises the widow's son from the dead. Wood engraving by F. Obermann.
Obermann, Ferdinand, 1823-Reference: 23731i
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The funeral procession of the Dutch naval commander de Ruyter in 1677. Etching.
Date: 1677Reference: 44305i
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Members of different brotherhoods carrying a coffin during a procession. Coloured lithograph by Gatti and G. Dura after G. Dura.
Gaetano DuraReference: 44240i
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The funeral procession of Princess Maria Clementina in 1735. Line engraving with etching by Rocco Pozzi after G.P. Panini.
Giovanni Paolo PaniniDate: 1735Reference: 46814i
Books
Raum für Tote : die Geschichte der Friedhöfe von den Gräberstrassen der Römerzeit bis zur anonymen Bestattung / herausgegeben von der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Friedhof und Denkmal, Zentralinstitut und Museum für Sepulkralkultur Kassel ; mit Beiträgen von Norbert Fischer [and 4 named others].
Date: [2003]
Pictures
Philippines: the dead and smoked bodies of three people seated on the ground. Photograph, 19--.
Date: [between 1908? and 1924?]Reference: 663919i
Ephemera
Thomas Roome of Fleetstreet, under-taker of funerals.
Date: [1750?]