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The Dance of Death.

La mort rit de tes recettes

Et conduit l'homme au tombeau.

Oblong, 4 by 3.

An anonymous and spirited etching of Death obse-quiously, and with his arms crossed, entering a room inwhich is a woman in bed with three infants. With upliftedarms she screams at the sight of the apparition. Below ina corner the husband, accompanied with four otherchildren. Upright, n by \o\.

" The lawyer's last circuit." He is attacked by fourDeaths mounted on skeleton horses. He is placed behindone of them, and all gallop off with him. A road-postinscribed " Road to hell." Below, the lines from Hamlet," Where be his quiddits now % his quillets, his cases, histenures, and his tricks," &c. Published April 25, 1782, byR. Smith, opposite the Pantheon, Oxford Street. Oblong,10 by 6\.

A modern wood-cut of a drinking and smoking party.Demons of destruction hover over them in the charactersof Poverty, Apoplexy, Madness, Dropsy, and Gout. In thebowl on the table is a monstrous head inscribed " Disease."Behind, a gigantic figure of Death with scythe and hour-glass. Oblong, 3! by 3.

A Sketch by Samuel Ireland, after Mortimer, in imitationof a chalk drawing, apparently exhibiting an Englishman,a Dutchman, and a Spaniard. Death behind stretching hisarms upon all of them. Oblong, iof by 8.

A wood-print entitled " Das betriibte Brautfest." Deathseizes a man looking at a table covered with wedding-cakes,&c. From a modern Swiss almanack. Oblong, 6 \ by 5^.

A mezzotint of a physician, who, attending a sick patientin bed, is attacked by a group of Deaths bearing standards;inscribed " Despair," " L'amour," " Omnia vincit amor," and"Luxury." Oblong, 11 by 8}.

An etching from a drawing by Van Venue of Deathpreaching from a charnel-house to a group of people.His text-book rests on the figure of a skeleton as a reading-desk. It is prefixed to Mr. Dagley's " Death's Doings,"mentioned in p. 139. Oblong, 5% by 4J-.