Grave Digger Collection

"What's O'Clock? What's O'Clock?" - drawn by Godwin, 1860. Creator: W Thomas
"What's O'Clock? What's O'Clock?" - drawn by Godwin, 1860. In this little Sketch, so unpretending in character, yet so charming for its very simplicity, Mr

A Funeral in Alsike, 1883. Creator: Gustaf Cederström
A Funeral in Alsike, 1883

Interior of a Protestant, Gothic Church, with a Gravedigger in the Choir, 1669. Creator: Emanuel de Witte
Interior of a Protestant, Gothic Church, with a Gravedigger in the Choir, 1669. The depiction of church interiors was a separate speciality

The Fourth Division Burial-ground, on Cathcart's Hill, Crimea, 1856. Creator: Unknown
The Fourth Division Burial-ground, on Cathcart's Hill, Crimea, 1856. Crimean War. This Illustration possesses a melancholy interest

The Vale of Rest, 1858-1859, (c1902). Creator: Unknown
The Vale of Rest, 1858-1859, (c1902). After a painting in the Tate Gallery, London. Subtitled, Where the weary find repose

The Rich Man Being Carried Away by the Devil. Creator: Heinrich Aldegrever
The Rich Man Being Carried Away by the Devil

Hamlet and Horatio before the Gravediggers (Act V, Scene I), 1843

The Funeral of Chrystom & Marcella vindicating herself (Six Illustrations for Don Quixote), 1756 or after

Plate18 from The Disasters of War (Los Desastres de la Guerra): Bury them and keep quiet. (Enterrar y callar.), 1810-20, published 1863

The invention of the cross; three men lifting a cross from a trench; from Recueil d estampes d apres les plus beaux tableaux et d apres les plus beaux desseins qui sont en France

The Artist and the Grave Digger, 1843-44. Creators: David Octavius Hill, Robert Adamson
The Artist and the Grave Digger, 1843-44

Burial of the Dead, Fredericksburg, 1863. Creator: Andrew Joseph Russell
Burial of the Dead, Fredericksburg, 1863. Formerly attributed to Mathew B. Brady

Burying the Dead on the Battlefield of Antietam, September 1862, 1862

Edinburgh. Greyfriars Churchyard, 1843-47. Creators: David Octavius Hill, Robert Adamson
Edinburgh. Greyfriars Churchyard, 1843-47

A Burial Party, Cold Harbor, Virginia. April 1865. Creator: John Reekie
A Burial Party, Cold Harbor, Virginia. April 1865

Funeral Procession, Folio 35r from a Mantiq al-tair (Language of the Birds), A. H. 892 / A
Funeral Procession, Folio 35r from a Mantiq al-tair (Language of the Birds), dated A.H. 892/ A.D. 1487

Hamlet and Horatio before The Gravediggers, 1843. 1843. Creator: Eugene Delacroix
Hamlet and Horatio before The Gravediggers, 1843. Act 5, scene 1, grave diggers preparing a burial site unearth the skull of Yorick

Hamlet Contemplating Yoricks Skull, 1828. 1828. Creator: Eugene Delacroix
Hamlet Contemplating Yoricks Skull, 1828

St. Peters Hospital, Bristol, c1870. St Peters Hospital, Bristol was behind St Peters church until it was destroyed in the Bristol Blitz in 1940

St. Nicholas Church: The Exterior, 1898. Creator: Unknown
St. Nicholas Church: The Exterior, 1898. St Nicholass church in Great Yarmouth, founded 1101 by Herbert de Losinga, is the towns oldest, most visible, historic landmark

St Leonards Church, Bromley-by-Bow, London, c1860. View of the church and the churchyard, showing a gravedigger and other figures in the foreground

Old St Leonards Church, Shoreditch, London, 1735. Artist: William Henry Toms
Old St Leonards Church, Shoreditch, London, 1735. East view of St Leonard, Shoreditch. In the foreground three grave diggers can be seen

East end of St Pauls Cathedral, City of London, 1837. Artist: John Le Keux
East end of St Pauls Cathedral, City of London, 1837. View with a gravedigger sitting in the churchyard

The burial of John Wesleys mother in Bunhill Fields, Finsbury, London, 1866. Artist
The burial of John Wesleys mother in Bunhill Fields, Finsbury, London, 1866. The pastor, dressed in white, leads the burial service. The mourners, dressed in black, surround him

Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio, c1850. Hamlet in the graveyard with Horatio and the clown, examining Yoricks skull. From Hamlet Act V, Sc 1, by William Shakespeare

Doctor Syntax Meditating on the Tombstones, 1820. Artist: Thomas Rowlandson
Doctor Syntax Meditating on the Tombstones, 1820. From The Second Tour of Doctor Syntax, In Search of Consolation, by William Combe. [Ackermann, London, 1820]

Dr. Syntax at the Funeral of His Wife, 1820. Artist: Thomas Rowlandson
Dr. Syntax at the Funeral of His Wife, 1820. From The Second Tour of Doctor Syntax, In Search of Consolation, by William Combe. [Ackermann, London, 1820]

The Banns Forbidden, 1820. Artist: Thomas Rowlandson
The Banns Forbidden, 1820. From The Second Tour of Doctor Syntax, In Search of Consolation, by William Combe. [Ackermann, London, 1820]

Mitford Church, Northumberland, 1814. Artist: John Greig
Mitford Church, Northumberland, 1814. From The Border Antiquities of England and Scotland, Vol. II, by Walter Scott, Esq. [Longman & Co. London, 1814]

Burial In A Church, (1885). Artist: Bernard Picart
Burial In A Church, (1885). Illustration from Ceremonies and Religious Costumes of all the people of the world, by Bernard Picart (1673-1733)

Honor the Brave, 1872. Artist: C Burt
Honor the Brave, 1872. A gravedigger leans on his spade and pauses to watch a funeral, probably that of an American patriot killed fighting the British in the American Revolutionary War

Rescue of the victims at Aubervilliers fort, 1892. A print from the Le Petit Journal, 11th June 1892

Filling a mass grave at night during the Plague of London, c1665
Filling a mass grave at night during the Plague of London, c 1665. Showing a group of men with torches in a churchyard, preparing to empty the contents of a covered cart into an open grave

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