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An undertaker drops in to give Christmas and New Year wishes to a sick man. Coloured lithograph, ca. 1830.

Four groups of figures in conversation. Coloured etching after G.M. Woodward, ca. 1800.

The dance of death: the undertaker and the physician. Coloured aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1816.

A physician by his patient's death-bed; represented with a skeletal death figure at the window and an undertaker's assistant arriving with a coffin. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1813?, after R. Newton.

An undertaker visiting a sick man in the hope of gaining a new client. Coloured etching after R. Newton.

A man with closed eyes walking into a skeletal death figure, a group of anxious undertakers run after them. Coloured etching by R. Newton, 1794, after himself.

O sredstvakh" k" preduprezhdenīi︠u︡ pogrebenīi︠a︡ obmershikh".

Paris qui souffre : la basse geôle du Grand-Châtelet et les morgues modernes / par Adolphe Guillot ; avec une préface par Ernest Daudet.

Grave matters : a journey through the modern funeral industry to a natural way of burial / Mark Harris.

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O sredstvakh" k" preduprezhdenīi︠u︡ pogrebenīi︠a︡ obmershikh".

Paris qui souffre : la basse geôle du Grand-Châtelet et les morgues modernes / par Adolphe Guillot ; avec une préface par Ernest Daudet.

Four groups of figures in conversation. Coloured etching after G.M. Woodward, ca. 1800.

An undertaker visiting a sick man in the hope of gaining a new client. Coloured etching after R. Newton.

Grave matters : a journey through the modern funeral industry to a natural way of burial / Mark Harris.