File:Life and Death contrasted - or, an essay on Man (BM 1935,0522.3.55).jpg
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[edit]Life and Death contrasted - or, an essay on Man
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Artist |
After: Robert Dighton
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Title |
Life and Death contrasted - or, an essay on Man |
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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 |
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Date |
1784 date QS:P571,+1784-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q6373 |
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Prints and Drawings |
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Accession number |
1935,0522.3.55 |
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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. |
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Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1935-0522-3-55 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 |
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Date and time of digitizing | 15:38, 4 November 2010 |
File change date and time | 15:47, 4 November 2010 |
Date metadata was last modified | 15:47, 4 November 2010 |