The dance of death. Coloured etching by I. Cruikshank, 1808, after G.M. Woodward, ca. 1795/1797.

  • Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809.
Date:
Oct. 1808
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493366i
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Twenty-four figures arranged in four rows, starting at the top left with a king and the Empress Catherine the Great of Russia, and continuing with a parson, a lawyer, a physician, a prostitute with syphilis, a gouty old man, etc.

Publication/Creation

London (No. 11 Cockspur Street) : Pub'd by Willm. Holland, Oct. 1808.

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1 print : etching, with watercolour

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The dance of death modernised. Designed by G.M. Woodward. Etch'd by I. Cruikshank

References note

British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, no. 11125

Reference

Wellcome Collection 493366i

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