Grave Collection (page 10)

Arundel Church, West Sussex, 1829. Artist: J Shury
Arundel Church, West Sussex, 1829. Arundels St Nicholas Church dates from 1380

The cemetery at Mecca, c1890. An engraving from Robert Browns The Countries of the World, published by Cassell, (London & Paris, c1890)

Kugelgens Grave, 1821-1822. Artist: Friedrich, Caspar David (1774-1840)
Kugelgens Grave, 1821-1822. Found in the collection of the Museum Behnhaus Dragerhaus, Lubeck

The Cemetery, ca 1825. Artist: Friedrich, Caspar David (1774-1840)
The Cemetery, ca 1825. Found in the collection of the Dresden State Art Collections

Landscape with Graves, ca 1836. Artist: Friedrich, Caspar David (1774-1840)
Landscape with Graves, ca 1836. Found in the collection of the Albertina, Vienna

A Funeral, 1891. Artist: Ancher, Anna (1859-1935)
A Funeral, 1891. Found in the collection of the Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen

Old cemetery. Stage design for a theatre play, 1790. Artist: Henry Hudfield
Old cemetery. Stage design for a theatre play, 1790. Found in the collection of the Museum Palace Theatre Ostankino, Moscow

A Hermit, 1585-1586. Artist: Martin de Vos
A Hermit, 1585-1586. Vos, Maerten, de (1532-1603). Found in the collection of the State A. Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

The Raising of Lazarus, 1512. Artist: Albrecht Durer
The Raising of Lazarus, 1512. Durer, Albrecht (1471-1528). Found in the collection of the State A. Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

At the edge of the grave, 1830s. Artist: Caspar David Friedrich
At the edge of the grave, 1830s. Friedrich, Caspar David (1774-1840). Found in the collection of the State A. Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

Honouring Our Dead in Japan, 1901. Illustration published in, Le Petit Journal, 27th October 1901

Burial of a toreador, Madrid, 1900. An illustration from Le Petit Journal, 28th October 1900

Cathcarts Hill, Crimea, Ukraine, c1888. Cemetery near near Sebastopol where soldiers killed in the Crimean War are buried

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

Childrens cemetery, Carthage, Tunisia, 3rd century BC. Many archaeologists believe that the Carthaginians practised child sacrifice

The grave of Sergeant Jean Bouin, French soldier, France, World War I, 1915. Jean Bouin (1888-1914) was a French athlete. He competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London

The Brave Dead of the 18th June 1815, 19th century

Anastasis, fresco in the parekklesion of Church of Christ in Chora, c1310-c1320. Christ, surrounded by mandorla, helps Adam and Eve from their graves watched by St John the Baptist and David

The Funeral at Ornans, 1850. Artist: Gustave Courbet
The Funeral at Ornans, 1850. This realistic representation of a simple country funeral, with the village priest leading the cortege to the open grave where the mourners are waiting

La Femme aux Champs, 1915. Artist: H Mouren
La Femme aux Champs, 1915. The Woman of the Fields. A French widow who has lost her husband and son in the First World War harnesses the family dog as well as the horse to plough her land

Burying victims of the Plague of London at night in multiple graves, 1665. Two of the men are smoking pipes, partly to combat the stench of the corpses

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

Roman Family on a grave-slab. Terme Museum. Bas-reliefs depicting families signified a longing for reunion in the afterlife, rather than a collective burial. Terme Museum Rome

Roman Husband and wife (funerary slab) Imperial period. At Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome
Roman Husband and wife, funerary slab from Imperial period, c2nd-3rd century. Bas-reliefs depicting couples were popular, signifying a longing for reunion in the afterlife

Grave-slab from Mycenae, Greece, 16h Century BC. From Shaft-Grave V, Chariot and spirals, held at National Museum Aireus

Tortoise Brooch from a Viking Grave in Norway c10th-11th century. At University Historical Museum. Oslo

Claw Beaker from an Anglo-Saxon grave at Lyminge, Kent, 5th century. At Maidstone Museum. A claw beaker is a name given by archaeologists to a type of drinking vessel often found as a grave good in

Pipeclay Figure from a Roman Grave, at Colchester, Essex, c60 AD. Figure made in the Allied region of Central Figure making from grave of a Roman official of Colchester

Roman Pipeclay Head of Child from Roman grave at Colchester, Essex, c2nd-3rd century

Tregiffian Barrow, Neolithic tomb, 3rd Millennium BC, Penwith, Cornwall, 20th century. Artist: CM Dixon
Tregiffian Barrow, Neolithic tomb, 3rd Millennium BC, Penwith, Cornwall, 20th century. Neolithic or early Bronze Age barrow or echambered tomb, is a rare form of passage grave

Megalithic Circle and Dolmen, c3rd millennium BC, Stenness, Orkney, Scotland, 20th century. Artist: CM Dixon
Megalithic Circle and Dolmen, c3rd millennium BC, Stenness, Orkney, Scotland, 20th century. The Standing Stones of Stenness are a neolithic monument five miles northeast of Stromness on the mainland

Burial cairn at Maes Howe, Orkney, Scotland, 20th century. Artist: CM Dixon
Burial cairn at Maes Howe, Orkney, Scotland, 20th century. A Neolithic chambered cairn and passage grave situated on Mainland, Orkney, Scotland

Lanyon Quoit, Cornwall, 20th century. Artist: CM Dixon
Lanyon Quoit, Cornwall, 20th century. Neolithic dolmen in Cornwall, 2 miles southeast of Morvah. It collapsed in a storm in 1815 and was re-erected 9 years later

Door Ring found in a Viking grave, 9th century
This copper alloy door ring was found in a Viking grave at Vik, Stennes, Norway - but is from Ireland. It probably belonged originally to a monastery door, 9th century

Interior of a passage grave, 26th century BC
Interior of a passage grave at Fourknocks, 26th century BC

Kerbstone at the entrance to a passage grave, 26th century BC
Kerbstone at the entrance to a passage grave at Newgrange, 26th century BC

Proleek Dolmen, 21st century BC
Proleek Dolmen. Legend has it that if you throw a stone onto the roof and it stays there, you will be married within a year, 21st century BC

Legananny Dolmen, a portal grave

French Dolmen
French Neolithic Dolmen near Mas D Azil

Grave circle A in the citadel at Mycenae, 16th century BC
Grave circle A in the citadel at Mycenae, seen from the Lion Gate, 16th century BC

Brooch from a Viking grave, 9th century
A brooch from a Viking grave in Sweden, now in the Museum of National Antiquities collection in Stockholm, 9th century

Huaxtec culture terracotta figurine, from a pre-Columbian grave, from the British Museums collection

Aztec terracotta figure from a pre-columbian grave, from the British Museums collection

The Ram in a Thicket, from Ur, southern Iraq, c2600-c2400 BC
Detail of the Ram in a Thicket, from Ur, southern Iraq, c2600-c2400 BC. One of an almost identical pair discovered by Leonard Woolley in the Great Death Pit

Egyptian grave-slab showing the cosmos
Egyptian grave-slab showing the solar boat carrying the Sun Disk with Ra holding an Ankh. Before the deceased stands Isis-Hathor, with a solar disk between cows horns

Defensive Celtic round tower, 9th century
Defensive Celtic round tower of the manetic settlement at Clonmachois in County Offaly, Ireland. The Vikings could sail up the River Shannon to attack the monasteries, 9th century

Roman grave-slab with a husband and wife, from the National Museums collection in Rome

Roman grave-slab showing a family group from Terme Museums collection in Rome

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