<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:title>Life and death contrasted, or, An essay on woman [graphic].</dc:title><dc:creator>Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, artist</dc:creator><dc:date>[not before 1793]</dc:date><dc:language>eng</dc:language><dc:description>A figure of a woman, divided vertically, shown on the right as a skeleton, standing next to a obleiisk inscribed with biblical and literary quotations, skull and bones at its base. Her left side shows her as a fashionably dressed woman, holding a fan decorated with a scene showing a man and woman dancing; she stands in a park with a high border hedge. Next to her lie playing cards, a book on gaming,  and vol.1 of Romances and novels. In the background stands an urn on a pedestal in a garden</dc:description><dc:description>Title from item.</dc:description><dc:description>Variant state, without plate number, of No. 3793 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3.</dc:description><dc:description>Date of publication inferred from date of the Bowles &amp; Carver partnership formed after the 1793 death of Carington Bowles. Cf. Dictionaries of the printers and booksellers who were at work in England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1557-1775 / by H.R. Plomer.  [London] : Bibliographical Society, 1977.</dc:description></oai_dc:dc>