Giving Up the Ghost or One Too Many

Thomas Rowlandson British
After Richard Newton British
Publisher Thomas Tegg British

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A dying man lies stretched on a bed next to a window, through which Death looks, a skeleton holding up an hourglass and a javelin, which he points at the man. A portly doctor sleeps in a chair at left while an undertaker's man, with a coffin on his back, enters from the right.

Giving Up the Ghost or One Too Many, Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757–1827 London), Hand-colored etching

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