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Maker(s):Smith, Percy John Delf
Culture:English (1882-1948)
Title:Death Refuses from the series Dance of Death (4)
Date Made:1914-1918
Type:Print
Materials:drypoint and etching printed in black on medium weight, moderately textured, white paper
Measurements:sheet: 10 5/8 in x 13 7/8 in; 27 cm x 35.2 cm; Image: 8 in x 10 in; 20.3 cm x 25.4 cm
Narrative Inscription:  signature and date in plate at lower left; Percy Smith / 1919, title in pencil at lower left; Death Refuses, signature in pencil at lower right: Percy Smith
Accession Number:  SC 2016.62.127
Credit Line:The Gladys Engel Lang and Kurt Lang Collection
Museum Collection:  Smith College Museum of Art
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Description:
Interior of World War One trench with pile of soldiers in uniform, helmets, and gasmasks. One soldier reaches to a cloaked figure standing in a pool of light. Light, shadow, darkness, death, Grim reaper, soldier, war, battle.

Label Text:
Additional writing on this object can be found at
Paper + People the Cunningham Center Blog.

Subjects:
Etching; drypoints (prints)

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