The skeleton of Death and the Phaeton. Death kneels behind a two-horse gig loosening one wheel from the axle. A man cracks a whip in the driver’s seat and a woman holds a parasol. 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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