The skeleton of Death looks out from behind death's door, to see the crowd of obese, lame, crippled, old and insane people waiting for release from life's torments. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Thomas Rowlandson from The English Dance of Death, Ackermann, London, 1816.

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