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Scythes

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  • A parody astrological diagram showing opposing aspects of the life of settlers in Jamaica: langorous noons and the hells of yellow fever. Coloured aquatint after A.James, 1800.
  • Cybele, Bacchus, Ceres and Flora on a chariot drawn by lions surrounded by all forms of natural abundance and cherubs, symbolising the element earth. Engraving by E. Baudet, 1695, after F. Albani.
  • Brasenose College, Oxford: quadrangle, with St. Mary's Church and the Radcliffe Camera behind. Line engraving by J. Basire after J.M.W. Turner.
  • La haz perdió su filo : a la vuelta se encontrará información acerca del Mafarside en el tratamiento de la sífilis ... / Parke, Davis & Compañía.
  • Literature saving the past from destruction by Time, in the form of a winged old man with a scythe. Etching by L. du Guernier.
  • La haz perdió su filo : a la vuelta se encontrará información acerca del Mafarside en el tratamiento de la sífilis ... / Parke, Davis & Compañía.
  • A doctor, straddled by a skeleton, holds a full purse in his hands; signifying that he lives well off others' deaths. Coloured lithograph by G. Engelmann.
  • Death as a skeletal figure wielding a scythe: representing fears concerning the Vaccination Act 1898 which removed penalties for not vaccinating against smallpox. Wood engraving by Sir E.L. Sambourne, 1898.
  • A sickly young woman sits covered up on a balcony; death (a ghostly skeleton clutching a scythe and an hourglass) is standing next to her; representing tuberculosis. Watercolour by R. Cooper, ca. 1912.
  • The branches of agriculture and husbandry linked by lines showing their progression; (below) workers scythe wheat. Line engraving after Richard Blome (?), 1686.
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    Men grinding scythes in Sheffield. Wood engraving by M. Jackson, 1866, after J. Palmer, 1865.

    Palmer, John, active 1856-1887. | Date: 1866 | Reference: 33936i
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    A dying man surrounded by fantastic and mythological figures. Coloured etching.

    | Reference: 16062i
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    A parody astrological diagram showing opposing aspects of the life of settlers in Jamaica: langorous noons and the hells of yellow fever. Coloured aquatint after A.James, 1800.

    James, Abraham., active 1800-1802. | Date: 1 October 1800 | Reference: 18134i
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    A crowned skeleton with three arrows. Etching, 1806.

    | Date: 1 September 1806 | Reference: 26261i
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    A lone, wounded, French grenadier greets a skeletal death figure with the words "I am ready". Lithograph, 1829, by N.-T. Charlet.

    Charlet, Nicolas-Toussaint, 1792-1845. | Date: 1829 | Reference: 24445i
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