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Life and Death contrasted - or, an essay on Man   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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After: Robert Dighton

Published by: Bowles & Carver
Title
Life and Death contrasted - or, an essay on Man
Description
English: Allegory of mortality, with a standing man, half, on the left, as a skeleton holding a spade in front of a tombstone with funereal biblical quotations, on the right in fashionable clothing with the star of the Order of the Garter, his pedigree at his feet together with masquerade tickets, cards, dice and other gambling paraphernalia, an elegant park in the background. 1784
Etching and engraving with hand-colouring
Date 1784
date QS:P571,+1784-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 344 millimetres
Width: 244 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1935,0522.3.55
Notes

A pair to BMSat.3793. The address shows that this impression is from 1793 or later. The plate, however, is earlier, and the number shows that it was first published in 1784 (see BMSat VI p.215).

Dighton's original watercolour for this print was sold at Sotheby's, 30 April 1953 and again from the collection of Mr Jeffrey Rose at Sotheby's, 23 February 1978, lot 37.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1935-0522-3-55
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