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A dying man surrounded by fantastic and mythological figures. Coloured etching.
Reference: 16062i- Pictures
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A crowned skeleton with three arrows. Etching, 1806.
Date: 1 September 1806Reference: 26261i- Pictures
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A withered tree bearing apples labelled with sins; representing the life of sin. Coloured lithograph, c. 1870, after J. Bakewell.
Bakewell, J., active 1770.Date: 1870Reference: 26799i- Pictures
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Five tombs containing skeletons of historical exemplars of wisdom, war, beauty, strength and riches; an allegory of change, decay and death. Engraving after A.P. van de Venne, ca. 1655.
Venne, Adriaen Pietersz. van de, 1589-1662.Date: 1655Reference: 26260i- Pictures
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A doctor, straddled by a skeleton, holds a full purse in his hands; signifying that he lives well off others' deaths. Coloured engraving.
Reference: 16058i- Pictures
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A cherubic Aesculapius fends off death with medicine. Engraving by Le Roy after C-P. Marillier.
Marillier, Clément Pierre, 1740-1808.Reference: 26062i- Pictures
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A doctor, straddled by a skeleton, holds a full purse in his hands; signifying that he lives well off others' deaths. Coloured lithograph by G. Engelmann.
Reference: 16059i- Pictures
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Aesculapius (representing medicine) routing death, Ceres (?) supplying milk to the starving. Drawing attributed to J.-C. Bordier du Bignon, 1822.
Bordier du Bignon, Jacques-Charles, 1774-1826.Date: 1822Reference: 95i- Pictures
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A withered tree bearing apples labelled with sins; representing the life of the base, 'natural' man. Etching, 1771, after J. Bakewell.
Bakewell, J., active 1770.Date: 1 January 1771Reference: 26769i- Pictures
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The ages of man represented as a step scheme. Reproduction of an engraving by C. Bertelli.
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The history of vaccination seen from an economic point of view: A pharmacy up for sale; an outmoded inoculist selling his premises; Jenner, to the left, pursues a skeleton with a lancet. Coloured etching, c. 1800.
Date: [c. 1800]Reference: 16140i- Pictures
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Kings examine the skeleton of King Croesus; allegory of vanity in the face of death. Etching by A. Allard.
Reference: 26744iPart of: 't lust-hof van Momus.- Books
The wisdom of the serpent : the myths of death, rebirth, and resurrection / by Joseph L. Henderson and Maud Oakes.
Henderson, Joseph L. (Joseph Lewis), 1903-2007.Date: [1990], ©1990- Pictures
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A wealthy man is stabbed by a skeleton while a man weighs coins on the other side of the table; representing the vanity of riches. Engraving by M. Pregel, 1616.
Date: 1616Reference: 26748i- Pictures
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Death and three fates on an ox-drawn carriage; historical figures die on the ground beneath; representing the triumph of death. Engraving by S. Pomarede, 1748, after G. Buti after Bonifacio de' Pitati.
Pitati, Bonifacio de', 1487-1553.Date: 1748Reference: 26234i