The skeleton of Death and his ledger. Death sits at a desk writing in a ledger with a quill pen. There are bags of Plaster of Paris Burnt Bones, a barrel of Cocculus indicus, a flask of Spirits Apothecary’s All, a basket and a sign Killing no Murder. 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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