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  • A town councillor enters a room in which he is greated by Death. Etching by J.R. Schellenberg, 1785.
  • Death carries a woman over his shoulders. Etching by Stefano della Bella.
  • A winged figure is flanked by Adam and Eve whose legs are chained by Death. Etching by C. de Pass.
  • Death and the glutton. Coloured aquatint.
  • A monk contemplates a skull at candlelight. Lithograph by Nepomuk Johann Strixner after L. Carracci.
  • Death as king holding a scythe. Etching.
  • Death carries off a child on his back. Etching by Stefano Della Bella.
  • A skeleton with bow and arrow. Etching attributed to Gerhart Altzenbach, 16--.
  • A man holding a skull. Engraving by Johann Jakob von Mechel.
  • A man with a female skeleton. Etching.
  • Death is the victor of the battlefield. Etching by Stefano della Bella, 16--.
  • A family sees the reflection of Death in a mirror. Etching.
  • A short stout man drinks from a punchbowl, while Death approaches him from behind and aims his dart at him. Etching by M. Darly, 1773.
  • Death carries a woman over his shoulders. Etching by Stefano della Bella.
  • A skeleton as a fashionably dressed woman. Engraving attributed to Gerhard Altzenbach, 16--.
  • Death and the woodcutter. Etching, 1758.
  • The Emperor Hadrian celebrates his funeral during his lifetime. Engraving by John Payne, 1639.
  • A skeleton and a devil flank a coat of arms. Etching, 1807.
  • A man, half human and half skeleton. Coloured etching after R. Dighton, 17--.
  • A skeleton encircled with a decorative band. Woodcut.
  • Death approaches a family. Coloured woodcut.
  • The three living and the three dead. Collotype after the Master of the Housebook, 1488-1505.
  • Saint James the hermit beating himself with a stone as he contemplates a skeleton in a tomb. Engraving by G. Piccini after Martin de Vos.
  • Death dressed as a fine gentleman stands on a tombstone.Lithograph.
  • Figures of Death rob a village of its children. Etching by Stefano Della Bella.
  • An elderly man taunted by a skeleton, as he sits and ponders in a vanitas conceit. Woodcut by Tobias Stimmer, 1580.
  • A young woman contemplating a skull. Woodcut by A. Andreani after A. Casolano, 1592.
  • A young woman contemplating a skull. Woodcut by A. Andreani after A. Casolano, 1592.
  • Three skulls are piled up to form a pyramidal composition on which a dead child partly lies. Heliogravure after S. Beham, 1529.
  • A family contemplates a gravestone. Stipple engraving by F. Bartolozzi after W. Hamilton.