The English dance of death, first volume, Plate 24: The masquerade

The English dance of death, first volume, Plate 24: The masquerade

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Title:
The English dance of death, first volume, Plate 24: The masquerade
Description:
A masked ball is represented at its height, gaily attended, and held in the Pantheon or some similar building. A dance is proceeding ; the most diversified scenes meet the eye on all sides, and Rowlandson has given full play to his humorous inventive faculties. In the front of the picture the crowd of merrymakers, all unthinking and unprepared, are horrified to discover a new turn abruptly given to the travesty ; the tall figure of Death has suddenly cast away his disguising domino, and holding aside a demoniac mask, is revealing to the terrified spectators the actual figure of the skeleton-destroyer, armed with his dart, and in grim earnest to strike.
Artist:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827
Date:
July 1, 1815
Format:
Prints
Genre:
Etchings
Aquatints
Caricatures
Location:
Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):
Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827). Prints and Drawings
Subjects:
Masquerades
Death
Skeletons
Crowds
Extent:
1 print : etching and aquatint ; sheet 14 x 24 cm
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Publisher:
London, 101 Strand : R. Ackermann's
Language:
English
Notes:
Title from catalogue raisonné.
Grego, II, p. 333
Caption on item: Such is the power and such is the strife / That ends the Masquerade of Life.
Notes (date):
Date from item.
Notes (citation):
Grego, Joseph. "Rowlandson the caricaturist; a selection from his works with anecdotal descriptions of his famous caricatures, in two volumes." London: Chatto and Windus, 1880
Identifier:
18_03_000233
Barcode:
36666003331598