The skeleton of Death and a minstrel. The troubadour plays a lute and serenades a woman at an upper window, while Death armed with daggers hides in a doorway. 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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