The Soul hovering over the Body reluctantly parting

The Soul hovering over the Body reluctantly parting with Life (Plate VI). A woman's spirit looks down with shock at her corpse in a shroud on her deathbed. Mountains and clouds visible through a window. Copperplate engraving by Louis Schiavonetti after an original drawing by William Blake from Robert Blair's The Grave, T. Bensley for Rudolph Ackermann, 1813

1808 Book Illustration Deathbed Louis Schiavonetti Luigi Schiavonetti Mortality Mystic Resurrection Rudolph Ackermann Shroud Soul T. Bensley The Grave Visionary William Blake

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