The Skeleton Re-animated (Plate IX, on calligraphic title page). A naked male angel blows a trumpet at a reclining skeleton under a shroud next to a burning funeral pyre. Copperplate engraving by Louis Schiavonetti after an original drawing by William Blake from Robert Blair’s The Grave, T. Bensley for Rudolph Ackermann, 1813.

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Size: 5113px × 6683px
Photo credit: © Florilegius / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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