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Memento mori : the dead among us / Paul Koudounaris.
Koudounaris, PaulDate: 2015
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Corrupt bodies : death and dirty dealing in a London morgue / Peter Everett and Kris Hollington.
Everett, PeterDate: 2019
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Memoria sobre la verificacion de las defunciones : leida en la Academia Médico-Farmacéutica de Barcelona / por Estanislao Andreu y Serra.
Andreu y Serra, Estanislao.Date: 1876
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A skeleton encircled with a decorative band. Woodcut.
Reference: 33884i
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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
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What should be most of all tho't upon. A brief essay, to awaken in a dying man, (that is to say, in every man,) a proper and a lively concern for, a good state after death. With some directions, how that good state is to be obtain'd and ensur'd. [One line of quotation in Latin]
Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.Date: 1713
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Hébert, Michel Pierre Alexis (1799-1887)
Hébert, Michel Pierre Alexis, 1799-1887Date: 1855-1859Reference: MS.2822
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Reflections on death. By William Dodd, LL.D. Prebendary of Brecon.
Dodd, William, 1729-1777.Date: MDCCLXXXVII. [1787]
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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
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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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A practical discourse concerning death. By William Sherlock, D. D. Dean of St. Pauls, Master of the Temple, and Chaplain in Ordinary to their Majesties.
Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.Date: 1742
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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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Memento mori : the dead among us / Paul Koudounaris.

Corrupt bodies : death and dirty dealing in a London morgue / Peter Everett and Kris Hollington.

Memoria sobre la verificacion de las defunciones : leida en la Academia Médico-Farmacéutica de Barcelona / por Estanislao Andreu y Serra.

A skeleton encircled with a decorative band. Woodcut.

A priest gives a dying man his last rites. Coloured woodcut, 1493.

A priest performing a ceremony in a temporary chapel on a ship housing the remains of Napoleon Bonaparte. Lithograph by J. Arnout.

What should be most of all tho't upon. A brief essay, to awaken in a dying man, (that is to say, in every man,) a proper and a lively concern for, a good state after death. With some directions, how that good state is to be obtain'd and ensur'd. [One line of quotation in Latin]

Hébert, Michel Pierre Alexis (1799-1887)

Reflections on death. By William Dodd, LL.D. Prebendary of Brecon.

Three young children visiting their mother's grave in a cemetery. Line engraving with etching by E.F. Finden after R. Westall.

Der Scheintod. Vortrag gehalten im Deutschen gesellig-wissenschaftlichen Verein von New-York am 15. December 1886.

The wounding of Lord Nelson on the deck of HMS Victory at the battle of Trafalgar. Engraving, 1814.

A practical discourse concerning death. By William Sherlock, D. D. Dean of St. Pauls, Master of the Temple, and Chaplain in Ordinary to their Majesties.

Burying the victims of the plague in 1665. Engraving by Page after S. Wale.

Savitri pleading with Yama for her husband's life. Chromolithograph.

A phrenologist holding a skull palpates a girl's skull, while her mother looks on. Lithograph by A-N. Delaunois after A. Debacq.

The rape of Lucretia by Tarquin. Line engraving by C. Cort after Titian, 1571.

The nurse and the dying patient / Jeanne C. Quint.

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.

Mary enters her Dormition holding a candle, surrounded by the apostles. Engraving.

A fiddler falls over in fright at a skeleton. Etching by J. Neagle after C. Edgeworth, 1801.

Saint Bonaventure resuscitates a dead child. Drawing by F. Rosaspina, c. 1830, after F.G. Gessi.

The funeral of Mrs Susannah Wesley at Bunhill Fields, the Methodist cemetery. Mezzotint by S. Gimber, 1865, after D. Woolstenhome.