Accession number
PML 145850.177
Published
[S.l. : s.n., 16--?]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from inscription on Pierpont Morgan Library copy.
Probably late 17th century.
Inserted as item 177 into an album of collected prints, broadsides, drawings, and miscellaneous single sheet items, assembled by former owner Joseph Ames and entitled "Emblematical and satirical prints on persons and professions" (PML 145850).
Probably late 17th century.
Inserted as item 177 into an album of collected prints, broadsides, drawings, and miscellaneous single sheet items, assembled by former owner Joseph Ames and entitled "Emblematical and satirical prints on persons and professions" (PML 145850).
Description
1 print : etching ; image: 238 x 302 mm; sheet: 263 x 327 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
Title inscribed in ink at head, "The Triumph of Death".
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a standing group of skeletal figures variously clad as kings, popes, bishops, and cardinals, with the secular powers gathered at right and the figures of spiritual authority at left.
Classification
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