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 | ID | F026-004 | | Title | The Dram Shop; Some find their Death by Sword & Bullet; And some by fluids down the Gullet. | | Medium | metal engraving | | Book | Thomas Rowlandson. The English Dance of Death. London : R. Ackermann, 1815. Page 0.1253. | | Notes | handcolored. Death adds vitriol and aqua forte to drink barrell. A powerful image only matched in literature some 60 years later with Zola’s L’assommoir. | | Theme | Danse Macabre | | Subjects | dance, skeleton |
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