The skeleton of Death pricks with his dart the hoof of a horse as a hunter is about to leap a fence. The rider holds a feather cap and wears a cape. The hunter’s leap. 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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