“In this world Our Comfort’s o’er, So let us find it at Death’s Door.”

Thomas Rowlandson

“In this world Our Comfort’s o’er, So let us find it at Death’s Door.”

London

Printed by J. Diggins, St. Ann’s Lane; Published at R. Ackermann’s Repository of Arts, 101, Strand

1816

Hand-colored aquatints

Rowlandson's contemporary version of the late-medieval allegory on the universality of death no matter one's station in life.

Together with proof of same plate before letters.

Source: The English Dance of Death, From the Designs of Thomas Rowlandson, with Metrical Illustrations, by the author of "Doctor Syntax" [William Combe]

From the collection of Josephine Lea Iselin.