Death & the lady [graphic].

Description

Title: Death & the lady [graphic].
Alternative Title: Death and the lady
Published / Created: [1810?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed by J. [...] Court
Description: Title from text above image.
Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record.
Imperfect impression; partial loss of imprint.
Two columns of quotations from the bible and other sources arranged around central image: She that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth. -I. Tim. 6 ...
Two columns of verse printed in letterpress below image: Death. Fair lady, lay your costly robes aside, no longer may you take glory in your pride ...
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Bible -- Literature -- I. Tim. 6., quotation -- Genesis III, quotation -- Bible, Eccl., quotation -- Bible, Job XXX, quotation -- Deut. 32., quotation -- Vices -- Ballads: 'Death and the Lady'.
Mounted to 37 x 23 cm.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss; May 1954;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 340 x 189 mm
Language: English

Genre: Ballads
Satires (Visual works) England 1810
Woodcuts England London 1810
Material: woodcut ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Death (Personification)
Subjects: Death (Personification)
England > 1810
England > London > 1810

Access: Public
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