A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical (1881)
Chatto, William Andrew, 1799-1864, Jackson, John, 1801-1848, Bohn, Henry G. (Henry George), 1796-1884 · New York : J. W. Bouton · leaf 365
-ninth,inclusive, there is only a single figure of Death, and in every instancehis action and expression are highly comic, most distinctly evincingthat mans destruction is his sport. In the fortieth cut there is no figureof Death ; the Deity seated on a rainbow, with his feet resting on theglobe,… … places, is a deaths-head, with something like a large worm proceedingfrom the mouth ; above the escutcheon, a barred helmet, seen in front likethat of a sovereign prince, is probably intended to represent the power ofDeath; the crest is a pair of fleshless arms holding something like alarge stone…
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