A man, half human and half skeleton. Coloured etching after R. Dighton, 17--.
- Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814.
- Date:
- [between 1700 and 1799]
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- 35845i
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On the right, the (from the viewer's point of view) right side of a man as a living nobleman, with a Stowe- or Stourhead-like landscape and a still-life of objects symbolising vain pleasures: a family tree ("Pedigree"), an admission ticket to a masquerade at the Pantheon, dice, a pack of cards, golf or hockey sticks and balls, a volume of the Rambler, a lottery ticket, an invitation from Lord Bauble, and a fragment of an E.O. wheel (representing the game of chance E.O., an earlier form of roulette but with the slots marked E (even) and O (odd) instead of being coloured red and black). On the left, the (from the viewer's point of view) left side of the man as a skeleton holding a spade, and the attributes of the dead: a graveyard with monumental tombs and some bones. The sky on the death-side is stormy grey, on the life-side azure
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