The skeleton of Death and the Antiquary. Death sits behind a gravestone reading Hic Jacet Jonathan Oldbuck FAS Obit. The historian sits at a desk writing in a ledger. The room is decorated with a suit of armor, painting, horn, vase, bowl, targe and spear. 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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