Volume 1

Death's doings : consisting of numerous original compositions in verse and prose, the friendly contributions of various writers : principally intended as illustrations of thirty copper-plates / designed and etched by R. Dagley.

  • Dagley, Richard, -1841.
Date:
1827
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Death's doings : consisting of numerous original compositions in verse and prose, the friendly contributions of various writers : principally intended as illustrations of thirty copper-plates / designed and etched by R. Dagley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    unfeigned thanks; being well assured that it is mainly to their kind and talented Illustra- tions, that “ Death’s Doings” is indebted for so great a degree of popularity. When, indeed (to use the words of one of its reviewers), it is recollected that “ the designs are illustrated by the writing, and not the writing by the de- signs, it is exceedingly amusing—interesting even—to observe the various points of view in which the same pictorial subject may be un- derstood, imagined, or wrought into descrip- tion and narrative, by persons of different ge- nius and powers.” Considerable interest having been excited in consequence of the singular Drawing by Van Venne being described in “ The Introduc- tion” (page II), an Etching has been made from it, which now appears as the Frontis- piece; and it is hoped that it cannot fail to be regarded as a curious and appropriate em- bellishment.