The Descent of Man into the Vale of Death (Plate II). Men and women, old and young, mothers with babes, infirm and healthy, walk, run, crawl and hobble down a path into a cave. Copperplate engraving by Louis Schiavonetti after an original drawing by William Blake from Robert Blair’s The Grave, T. Bensley for Rudolph Ackermann, 1813.

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