The skeleton of Death pricks bubbles of life
The skeleton of Death pricks with his darts the bubbles of life blown by a philiosopher and a fool before a pyramid. The philosopher has scrolls reading Cicero's maxim Summum bonum Virtus and Aphorisms. The fool sits near an easel, brush, sheet music and arrow. The bubbles of life broken by death. Illustration drawn and engraved on steel by Richard Dagley from his own Death's Doings, Consisting of Numerous Original Compositions in Verse and Prose, J. Andrews, London, 1827. Dagley (1761-1841) was an English painter, illustrator and engraver
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