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Three skulls are piled up to form a pyramidal composition on which a dead child partly lies. Heliogravure after S. Beham, 1529.
Beham, Sebald, 1500-1550.Date: 1800-1899Reference: 33732i
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Death tramples on three female allegorical figures representing sensual pleasures. Pen and ink drawing, ca. 1700.
Date: 1700Reference: 35669i
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An architectural composition resembling an altar on which a skeleton lies, cherubs fly above. Engraving.
Reference: 34810i
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A skeleton encircled with a decorative band. Woodcut.
Reference: 33884i
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A skeleton with snakes and rats. Etching by C. Grignion, 1821.
Date: 12th. March, 1821Reference: 35745i
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A winged and crowned figure of Death writes on a plaque. Watercolour.
Reference: 35736i
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A dying man in bed is surrounded by a group of people praying for him. Etching.
Reference: 34816i
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A skull placed on some old books, a Venetian drinking glass, playing cards, a cigarette stub, and six coins. Watercolour.
Date: 1900-1999Reference: 3087739i
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Death and the compadre. Etching by Harden S. Melville, 18--.
Melville, Harden Sidney, active 1837-1882.Reference: 36626i
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A coat of arms depicting an altar, a coffin and skull and crossbones, is flanked by two figures of death; above, a skull crowned with an hourglass. Woodcut by C. van Sichem.
Sichem, Christoffel van, approximately 1546-1624.Reference: 33856i
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A procession of dancers following a music-making Death. Etching by A.W. Thompson, 1867.
Thompson, Alfred Wordsworth, 1840-1896.Date: [1867]Reference: 36792i
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A skeleton as Death embraces a pregnant woman. Woodcut by Gerhard Marcks, 1959.
Marcks, Gerhard.Date: [1979?]Reference: 803818i
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A man embraces a female figure holding an anchor who is standing on a sack filled with money while Death enters the room. Etching.
Reference: 34639i
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Death flanked by two men in fashionable dress. Pen and ink drawing.
Reference: 35687i
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A woodcutter shows Death his pile of wood. Mezzotint.
Reference: 35834i
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Men and women inspect the open grave of Venus. Etching.
Reference: 34915i
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A coat of arms, depicting a skull, is flanked by a man and a woman. Lithograph after a woodcut.
Reference: 33715i
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Death holds a scroll while standing at an open grave. Etching.
Reference: 34576i
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Two men in the presence of death hold a dialogue with God. Etching by John Lightbody.
Lightbody, John.Reference: 35757i
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A family contemplates a gravestone. Stipple engraving by F. Bartolozzi after W. Hamilton.
Hamilton, William, 1751-1801.Reference: 35887i
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Two women open a cupboard in which a skeleton stands. Engraving by Brown after W.M. Craig, 1819, after E. Haywood.
Haywood, Eliza Fowler, 1693?-1756.Date: Jan.y 1. 1819Reference: 36575i
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A family sees Death's reflection in a mirror. Etching.
Reference: 35673i
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Death carries a woman over his shoulders. Etching by Stefano della Bella.
Della Bella, Stefano, 1610-1664.Reference: 34782i
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King Richard II as described by William Shakespeare. Drawing after J.H. Mortimer.
Reference: 35881i
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A town councillor enters a room in which he is greated by Death. Etching by J.R. Schellenberg, 1785.
Schellenberg, Johann Rudolf, 1740-1806.Date: [1785]Reference: 35821i