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  • Death as king shows a mirror to mankind. Engraving by John Payne, 1639.
  • Death carries off a child on his back. Etching by Stefano Della Bella.
  • A skeleton with bow and arrow. Etching attributed to Gerhart Altzenbach, 16--.
  • Two young men are approached by a prostitute: she is a clothed skeleton holding a made-up mask in front of her face, representing syphilis. Lithograph by J.J. Grandville, 1830.
  • Death knocks at the doors of both the poor and the rich. Pen and ink drawing.
  • Death as a skeleton is about to cut down with a scythe two plants in which people are living. Wood engraving by J.L. Williams after E.K. Johnson.
  • A man holding a skull. Engraving by Johann Jakob von Mechel.
  • A man with a female skeleton. Etching.
  • Death tramples on three female allegorical figures representing sensual pleasures. Pen and ink drawing, ca. 1700.
  • Saladin proclaims that he will only take his shirt to his grave. Engraving by John Payne, 1639.
  • Death is the victor of the battlefield. Etching by Stefano della Bella, 16--.
  • A skeleton as memento mori. Etching.
  • A family sees the reflection of Death in a mirror. Etching.
  • A short stout man drinks from a punchbowl, while Death approaches him from behind and aims his dart at him. Etching by M. Darly, 1773.
  • Death carries a woman over his shoulders. Etching by Stefano della Bella.
  • A monument teaching mortality, including figures and symbols alluding to death. Etching by or after G. Fortuna.
  • A skeleton as a fashionably dressed woman. Engraving attributed to Gerhard Altzenbach, 16--.
  • Death and the woodcutter. Etching, 1758.
  • Two young men are approached by a prostitute: she is a clothed skeleton holding a made-up mask in front of her face, representing syphilis. Lithograph by J.J. Grandville, 1830.
  • Death pays a visit to a baron. Lithograph by Langlumé after Jean Grandville.
  • A skull, a skeleton, candles and other symbols of mortality. Engraving attributed to G. Altzenbach, [16--].
  • The dance of death: Death and the abbess and Death and a lady. Woodcut with letterpress.
  • The Emperor Hadrian celebrates his funeral during his lifetime. Engraving by John Payne, 1639.
  • A skeleton and a devil flank a coat of arms. Etching, 1807.
  • An architectural composition resembling an altar on which a skeleton lies, cherubs fly above. Engraving.
  • A man, half human and half skeleton. Coloured etching after R. Dighton, 17--.
  • A skeleton encircled with a decorative band. Woodcut.
  • A skull with a timepiece and flowers Etching by William Faithorne, 16--, after Philippe de Champaigne.
  • Death approaches a family. Coloured woodcut.
  • The three living and the three dead. Collotype after the Master of the Housebook, 1488-1505.