Emblems of Mortality

John Bewick (1760–1795).
Emblems of Mortality: representing, in upwards of fifty cuts, Death seizing all ranks and degrees of people, imitated from a painting in the cemetery of the Dominican church at Basil, in Switzerland.
London: Printed for T. Hodgson, 1789.
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Emblems of Mortality