The skeleton of Death and the quack doctor

The skeleton of Death and the quack doctor. Death enters the room with bottle of medicine as the mountebank takes the pulse of a sick man in a chair with a footrest. A scroll with The Only Infallible Remedy on the chair. The empiric. 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

Charlatan Dance Of Death Deaths Doings Drug Engraver Footrest Grim Reaper Illustrator J. Andrews Macabre Morbid Mortality Mountebank Poison Potion Pulse Richard Dagley Steel Engraving

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