The skeleton of Death bowls a ball at a cricketer at bat. The wicket keeper is Father Time with his scythe. A top hat, coat, cricket bat and ball lie on the ground. 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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