M0005498: "Death and life contrasted", coloured etching after R. Dighton

Date:: 2 August 1938

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/45/11

Part of:: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive

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Wellcome Trust Corporate ArchiveWT
- Direct activitiesWT/D
  - Library and MuseumWT/D/1
    - Images from the photographic libraryWT/D/1/20
      - Photographic library: "M" seriesWT/D/1/20/1
        "M" series glass plate negatives: M0005488-M0005589WT/D/1/20/1/45
        M0005498: "Death and life contrasted", coloured etching after R. DightonWT/D/1/20/1/45/11

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M0005498: "Death and life contrasted", coloured etching after R. Dighton. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

Coloured etching, 18th century, showing the left side of a man as a skeleton holding a spade and the right side of the man living as a nobleman with objects symbolising vain pleasures. Related images: V0042172

Publication/Creation

2 August 1938

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the item depicted in the glass plate negative: 35845i.

Notes

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2021.

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Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.

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