The skeleton of Death joins an irate father as he tries to stop his only daughter eloping with a soldier in a stagecoach to Gretna Green. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Thomas Rowlandson from The English Dance of Death, Ackermann, London, 1816.

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