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  • Death pays a visit to a baron. Lithograph by Langlumé after Jean Grandville.
  • A skull, a skeleton, candles and other symbols of mortality. Engraving attributed to G. Altzenbach, [16--].
  • The dance of death: Death and the abbess and Death and a lady. Woodcut with letterpress.
  • An architectural composition resembling an altar on which a skeleton lies, cherubs fly above. Engraving.
  • A man embraces a female figure holding an anchor who is standing on a sack filled with money while Death enters the room. Etching.
  • Six people seated at an outdoor table are approached by Death, a young woman holding a skull, and a winged putto. Etching.
  • A skeleton with snakes and rats. Etching by C. Grignion, 1821.
  • Death flanked by two men in fashionable dress. Pen and ink drawing.
  • King Richard II as described by William Shakespeare. Drawing after J.H. Mortimer.
  • Death knocks at the doors of both the poor and the rich. Pen and ink drawing.
  • Death tramples on three female allegorical figures representing sensual pleasures. Pen and ink drawing, ca. 1700.
  • Saint Jerome. Etching by imitator of Rembrandt van Rijn.
  • Atte[n]de tibi quia morieris. Hodie mihi, et cras tibi. Si no[n] es pro te modo solicitus. Quis erit pro te i[n] futuro.
  • Saint Jerome. Oil painting, ca. 1900 (?), after A. Dürer.
  • A human head dissected: "In memoriam". Acrylic painting by R. Ennis, 2001.
  • A human head dissected: "In memoriam". Acrylic painting by R. Ennis, 2001.
  • Attributes of Kubera in a "rgyan tshogs" banner. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.
  • Attributes of Kubera in a "rgyan tshogs" banner. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.
  • Attributes of Kubera in a "rgyan tshogs" banner. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.
  • Attributes of Kubera in a "rgyan tshogs" banner. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.