Description:
one of portfolio of 6 woodcuts and descriptive running text in rhyming verse, beginning on intro/title page and ending on endpiece
A woodcut image fills most of the page. To the left a skeleton coms out of the ground and a broken cross lays at his feet. A woman standing in the center hands the skeleton a sword while a woman slightly behind her to the left lifts a hat above its head and furthey behind them two men stand on either side of a horse. To the right of the group is a third woman with her face masked and a scales in her hand. She points to a female figure sitting in a portico like sculpture in the background blindfolded with hands bound behind her. All the figures in the foreground have birds' feet.
Tags:
deaths; revolutions; social commentary Subjects:
Engraving; Death Link to share this object record:
https://museums.fivecolleges.edu/detail.php?t=objects&type=ext&id_number=MH+1991.4.723.2 |
