Death Meeting Coach, 1827

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Lithograph entitled: "Death meeting coach. Designed and done on stone by E. Hull, 1827." A skeleton is standing on the road. A horse drawn coach is passing by. The ill passenger is leaning out the window. Dance of Death, also called Danse Macabre (French), Danza Macabra (Italian), Dansul Mortii (Romanian), Danza de la Muerte (Spanish), Dansa de la Mort (Catalan), Danca Macabra (Portuguese language), Totentanz (German), Dodendans (Dutch), Surmatants (Estonian), is an artistic genre of late medieval allegory on the universality of death: no matter one's station in life, the Dance of Death unites all.

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Size: 4200px × 3231px
Photo credit: © Photo Researchers / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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