The Descent of Man into the Vale of Death, Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810, Italian, after William Blake, 1757–1827, British, Text by Robert Blair, 1699–1746, British, Published by Rudolf Ackermann, 1764–1834, British, 1808, published 1813, Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Sheet: 15 × 11 3/8 inches ( × cm), Plate: 11 × 6 1/2 inches ( × cm), and Image: 9 1/2 × 5 1/4 inches ( × cm), cave, children, crutches, damned souls, death, descending, fear, landscape, men, mothers, path, religious and mythological subject, rocks, staff

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