(MEMENTO MORI) Rembrandt Peale after The Court of Death

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(MEMENTO MORI.) Rembrandt Peale, after. The Court of Death. Large format chromolithograph by Sarony, Major & Knapp after the 24-foot painting by Peale. 19 3/4x29 3/4 inches sheet size, wide margins; registration pin holes, moderate foxing. New York: G.Q. Colton, 1859

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The title-margin text explains this complex allegory, with the dark central figure of Death resting upon the corpse of a youth stricken down in the vigor of health. The Reaper is attended on the right by agents of war, conflagration, famine and pestilence. At left are intemperance, pleasure, remorse, suicide, despair, fever, apoplexy, etc. Old Age approaches Death undaunted, firmly supported by a figure symbolizing his Christian faith. Marzio, The Democratic Art, plate 47.