Death as king shows a mirror to mankind. Engraving by John Payne, 1639.

  • Payne, John, -1647?
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1639
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34691i
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1 print : etching ; image 14.3 x 8.9 cm

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The mirrour which flatters not. O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end! Deut: 32.29. Mors sola fatetur quantula sint hominum corpuscula. Iuvenal: Bears number top left : P. 157.

References note

A.M. Hind, Engraving in England in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, part III by M. Corbett and M. Norton, Cambridge 1964, p. 24, no. 45
Tarnya Cooper, Refashioning death: vanitas and memento mori prints from northern Europe 1514-c.1640 (exhibition catalogue, University College London), London 1997, no. 3

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Wellcome Collection 34691i

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