The skeleton of Death pushes a ladder away from a wall killing a gallant suitor as he tries to elope with a beauty. The girl's father shoots a musket at the falling man. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Thomas Rowlandson from The English Dance of Death, Ackermann, London, 1816.

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