[The gallant's downfall] [graphic].Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker[1 January 1816]eng"The corner of a house seen from a walled garden. Death throws down a ladder which gave access to a window from which a distraught girl looks out; her lover, a young lieutenant, falls from it towards a pond, while an elderly colonel, the father, fires a blunderbuss towards cats on the wall, the charge being intercepted by the falling man. A prancing dog barks."--British Museum catalogueTitle from British Museum catalogue, taken from the heading to the printed page opposite the plate in The English dance of death.Couplet etched below image: The assailant does not feel a wound; but yet he dies, for he is drown'd.Attributed to Rowlandson in the British Museum catalogue.Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint from top margin and verses from bottom margin. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum.Plate from: Combe, W. The English dance of death. London : Published at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts ..., 1815-1816, v. 2, opposite page 241.Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Skeleton as Death.