The Dance of Death, the Bishop - Etching by Isaac Cruikshank - 1808
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Original hand-colored etching by Isaac Cruikshank (1764-1811) after George Murgatroyd Woodward, from the satirical series The Dance of Death. Death, in the figure of a skeleton, seizes by the nose and the neck-cloth a stout bishop who protests, I can't go - I am a Bishop!!
Original hand-colored etching by Isaac Cruikshank (1764-1811) after George Murgatroyd Woodward, from the satirical series The Dance of Death. Death, in the figure of a skeleton, seizes by the nose and the neck-cloth a stout bishop who protests, I can't go - I am a Bishop!!
The complete sheet set out twenty-four figures in four rows, all of them surprised by Death, who drags them off in the attitude of a grotesque dancer while each pleads its excuse in engraved lettering. This example is trimmed from that larger sheet.
Medium: Etching, hand-colored.
Artist / after: George Murgatroyd Woodward (1765-1809).
Engraver: Isaac Cruikshank (1764-1811).
Date: 1808.
Dimensions: 4.1 x 5.5 in (10.5 x 14 cm).
Condition: Trimmed from a larger sheet and pasted to paper. It has a tear running across the image, heavily toned paper and damp stains throughout. Sold with these defects, clearly visible in the photograph.
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Original hand-colored etching by Isaac Cruikshank (1764-1811) after George Murgatroyd Woodward, from the satirical series The Dance of Death. Death, in the figure of a skeleton, seizes by the nose and the neck-cloth a stout bishop who protests, I can't go - I am a Bishop!!