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  • Visiting the sick: a grieving woman bends over a praying patient. Tinted aquatint by F.C. Lewis, 1831, after J. Flaxman.
  • Visiting the sick: a grieving woman bends over a praying patient. Tinted aquatint by F.C. Lewis, 1831, after J. Flaxman.
  • People crowd around a dying person's bed in grief while final rites are being read. Stipple engraving by N. Schiavonetti, 1812, after R. Westall.
  • A dying man in bed being read the last rites. Lithograph by F. Piloty after L. Bramer.
  • Antiochus IV of Syria, sick and injured by a fall from his chariot, dictates his will as surgeons bandage his leg. Etching by N. Hallé, 1738.
  • Isaac fooled into blessing Jacob with Rebekah present, while Esau hunts venison. Woodcut attributed to C. van Sichem the elder.
  • Soldiers standing over a robber's death-bed. Line engraving by F.W. Topham after himself.
  • Eudamidas dictating his will on his deathbed, leaving the care of his mother and daughter to two friends. Drawing by A.-Ch. Coumeau or Courneau, 1802-1804, after N. Poussin.
  • A dying man making his will to lawyers while a relative cries. Line engraving.
  • Eudamidas dictating his will on his deathbed, leaving the care of his mother and daughter to two friends. Engraving by F. Bartolozzi, 1765, after N. Poussin.
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