The poet and the skeleton of Death. The poet sits writing an Ode to Immortality at his desk with a quill pen on a scroll, as the skeleton moves from behind a curtain to snuff out a candle with a candle extinguisher. 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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