The British dance of death, exemplified in a series of engravings from drawings by Van Assen : with explanatory and moral essays / from drawings by Van Assen.

  • Van Assen, Benedictus Antonio, -1817.
Date:
1823
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The British dance of death, exemplified in a series of engravings from drawings by Van Assen : with explanatory and moral essays / from drawings by Van Assen. 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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    an indelible disgrace to the present gera, when we arrogate to ourselves the practice of every thing that is deemed refined and elegant. The recent circumstance of a boxer, of the name of Hickman, being thrown from a chaise, and crushed to death under the wheel of a waggon, when just returning from one of the prize fights, fills the mind with horror while reflecting on his totally unprepared state at the awful moment! MORAL, Oppos’d to Death, each Mortal’s strength must fail, For nothing earthly can our lives enshield; But when the soul is cas’d in Virtue’s mail. It conejuers Death in Heaven’s eternal field,