The english dance of death, from the designs of Thomas Rowlandson. With metrical illus. by the author of "Doctor Syntaz"
This is a 1903 New York Appleton reissue of The English Dance of Death, a series of satirical verse and caricature prints by William Combe with designs by Thomas Rowlandson, first published in the early 1800s for a British readership. The pictures are hand-coloured line engravings with loose watercolour washes, showing skeletons caught among living figures in streets, churches, taverns and carriages, and a designer might take from them the comic-macabre energy of crowded satirical scenes, the expressive caricatured faces, and the bold linework with light tinted colour.
