In a rural landscape with trees in the right rear of the print, Death in the form of a skeleton stand with his scythe and reaches down to touch an elderly white-bearded woodman who has fallen in the grass. The latter points to the burden of sticks which he has dropped, his axe lying on the ground as well
Description:
Title etched between two columns of verse in six lines each below image., Numbered in plate '339' in lower left corner., Date estimated from British Museum catalogue, v. 5, Appendix: Key to the dates of the series of mezzotints issued by Carington Bowles., Verse in plate based on Aesopian fable: A poor old woodman trudg'd along the road bending beneath the double load of faggots and of age. Alas! he cry'd. is there like me a wretch beside in all the country round? Quite spent and almost out of breath, he throws his burden on the ground, bemoand his fate and call'd on Death. Come Death, o come, and end my pain. Death came, and ask'd, what would you have of me? Only that you would be so kind said he, to help me with my bundle up again., and Publication date erased from print.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, at his map & print warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London, publish'd as the act directs
