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Dance of Death

Maker

(artist)
1757-1827

(engraver)
1757-1827

(publisher)

Title

Dance of Death

Date of Production

1.1.1816

Medium

engraving

Dimensions

Height: 14.1 cm
Width: 21.4 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.5466

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Library, transfer, 1990

Credit

Courtauld Gallery, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords












Provenance

previous owner: Witt, Robert Clermont (Sir)

Inscriptions

Inscription: recto: upper centre, date, publisher: Pub. Jan. 1. 1816, at R. Ackermann's, Repository of Arts, 101, Strand.

Inscription: recto: lower centre, rhyming couplet: What heart felt Tears bedew the Dust / Of Him whose ev'ry thought was just.

Inscription: recto: typewritten, artist and incorrect title (crossed out): T. ROWLANDSON / Dr. Syntax.

Inscription: recto: handwritten in blue ink, lower centre, title : Dance of Death.

Stamp: recto: stamped in purple, lower centre, provenance: HAMPSTEAD PUBLIC LIBRARY PUBLIC LIBRARIES / LOCAL COLLECTION / H. J. CORNISH COLLECTION . 1928.

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