The Soul hovering over the Body reluctantly parting with Life (Plate VI). A woman's spirit looks down with shock at her corpse in a shroud on her deathbed. Mountains and clouds visible through a window. 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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