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  • Two ladies contemplate a tombstone. Mezzotint, 1803.
  • Death and the compadre. Etching by Harden S. Melville, 18--.
  • Death stands armed with spear and hourglass. Etching by H.H. (Hendrik Hondius I).
  • A family contemplates a gravestone. Stipple engraving by F. Bartolozzi after W. Hamilton.
  • A skull with a timepiece and flowers Etching by William Faithorne, 16--, after Philippe de Champaigne.
  • A skull with an ornamental frame. Collotype after Hans Wechtlin, c. 1510-11.
  • Jonah holding a skull. Etching.
  • Simon Pauli. Line engraving by A. Frölich.
  • A skull. Etching.
  • A skeleton sits backwards on a horse waiting for a blacksmith, dressed as a fool, to finish his job. Woodcut.
  • Mars lies in his monumental tomb and is surrounded by soldiers. Etching.
  • A woman bemoans the death of a man in the presence of the figure of Death. Etching.
  • Death tramples on three female allegorical figures representing sensual pleasures. Etching by Hieronymus Wierix.
  • A family sees Death's reflection in a mirror. Etching.
  • Simon Pauli. Line engraving by A. Frölich.
  • Four figures contemplate the inscription on a tomb in Arcadia. Etching by Etienne Picart after Nicolas Poussin, 1653.
  • Death visits a mother and her three newborn babies. Etching after a design attributed to G.F. Barbieri, il Guercino.
  • A coat of arms, depicting a skull, is flanked by a man and a woman. Lithograph after a woodcut.
  • A young man and a young woman looking through an opening in a wall; alternatively, a human skull. Lithograph.
  • Death carries off a child on his back. Etching by Stefano Della Bella.
  • A town councillor enters a room in which he is greated by Death. Etching by J.R. Schellenberg, 1785.
  • Death carries a woman over his shoulders. Etching by Stefano della Bella.
  • A boy seated next to an altar dedicated to Death leans on a skull. Etching by Petrus de Jode.
  • A winged figure is flanked by Adam and Eve whose legs are chained by Death. Etching by C. de Pass.
  • Death and the glutton. Coloured aquatint.
  • A monument teaching mortality, including figures and symbols alluding to death. Etching by or after G. Fortuna.
  • A monk contemplates a skull at candlelight. Lithograph by Nepomuk Johann Strixner after L. Carracci.
  • A winged figure of Death stands on top of a selection of worldly goods and holds an hourglass and a scythe. Mezzotint.
  • Death as king holding a scythe. Etching.
  • Death tramples on three female allegorical figures representing sensual pleasures. Etching by Hieronymus Wierix.