print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1935,0522.3.55
- Title
- Object: Life and Death contrasted - or, an essay on Man
- Description
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Allegory of mortality, with a standing man, half, on the left, as a skeleton holding a spade in front of a tombstone with funereal biblical quotations, on the right in fashionable clothing with the star of the Order of the Garter, his pedigree at his feet together with masquerade tickets, cards, dice and other gambling paraphernalia, an elegant park in the background. 1784
Etching and engraving with hand-colouring
- Production date
- 1784
- Dimensions
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Height: 344 millimetres
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Width: 244 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- A pair to BMSat.3793. The address shows that this impression is from 1793 or later. The plate, however, is earlier, and the number shows that it was first published in 1784 (see BMSat VI p.215).
Dighton's original watercolour for this print was sold at Sotheby's, 30 April 1953 and again from the collection of Mr Jeffrey Rose at Sotheby's, 23 February 1978, lot 37.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2002 Jan-Mar, Newcastle, Hatton Gall, Followers of Fashion
2002 Jun-Jul, Belfast, Ulster Mus, Followers of Fashion
2002 Aug-Sep, Nottingham, Djanogly AG, Followers of Fashion
2002/3 Dec-Feb, Brighton MAG, Followers of Fashion
2003 Apr-Jun, Braintree District Mus, Followers of Fashion
- Acquisition date
- 1935
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1935,0522.3.55
