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  • A parody astrological diagram showing opposing aspects of the life of settlers in Jamaica: langorous noons and the hells of yellow fever. Coloured aquatint after A.James, 1800.
  • Cybele, Bacchus, Ceres and Flora on a chariot drawn by lions surrounded by all forms of natural abundance and cherubs, symbolising the element earth. Engraving by E. Baudet, 1695, after F. Albani.
  • Brasenose College, Oxford: quadrangle, with St. Mary's Church and the Radcliffe Camera behind. Line engraving by J. Basire after J.M.W. Turner.
  • La haz perdió su filo : a la vuelta se encontrará información acerca del Mafarside en el tratamiento de la sífilis ... / Parke, Davis & Compañía.
  • Literature saving the past from destruction by Time, in the form of a winged old man with a scythe. Etching by L. du Guernier.
  • La haz perdió su filo : a la vuelta se encontrará información acerca del Mafarside en el tratamiento de la sífilis ... / Parke, Davis & Compañía.
  • A doctor, straddled by a skeleton, holds a full purse in his hands; signifying that he lives well off others' deaths. Coloured lithograph by G. Engelmann.
  • Death as a skeletal figure wielding a scythe: representing fears concerning the Vaccination Act 1898 which removed penalties for not vaccinating against smallpox. Wood engraving by Sir E.L. Sambourne, 1898.
  • A sickly young woman sits covered up on a balcony; death (a ghostly skeleton clutching a scythe and an hourglass) is standing next to her; representing tuberculosis. Watercolour by R. Cooper, ca. 1912.
  • The branches of agriculture and husbandry linked by lines showing their progression; (below) workers scythe wheat. Line engraving after Richard Blome (?), 1686.
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Death
Death - Mythology
Agriculture
Skeleton
Hour-glasses
Fertility
Angels
Wheat
Harvesting
Time - Mythology