The messenger of mortality, or, A dialogue between Death and the lady

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Title: The messenger of mortality, or, A dialogue between Death and the lady
Alternative Title: Dialogue between Death and the lady
Contributor: Carrall, M. W. active 1822-1834, publisher.
Published / Created: [between 1822 and 1834]
Publication Place: York, England and England York
Publisher: Carrall, printer, Walmgate, York
Description: Caption title.
Date from entry for Carrall in British Book Trade index.
In verse.
First line: Fair lady, lay your costly robes aside ...
Woodcut image: a scene in a room with two windows and a table with a lighted candle. On the right Death wearing a crown and holding an arrow and hourglass stands next to a lady who is holding her child's hand. Beside the child stands a gentleman (doctor). On the ground at Death's feet are a shovel and emblems of power(?).
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Provenance: Jarndyce; June 2019.
Extent: 1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) : 43 x 28 cm
Language: English

Genre: Poetry
Woodcuts
Ballads
Broadside poems
Material: 1 woodcut ;
Resource Type: text and still image
Subject (Topic): Death
Death (Personification)
Children
Hourglasses
Mothers
Physicians
Subjects: Death > Poetry
Death (Personification)
Children
Hourglasses
Mothers
Physicians

Access: Public
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