Death as king shows a mirror to mankind. Engraving by John Payne, 1639.

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1 print : etching ; image 14.3 x 8.9 cm

The mirrour which flatters not. O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end! Deut: 32.29. Mors sola fatetur quantula sint hominum corpuscula. Iuvenal: Bears number top left : P. 157.

A.M. Hind, Engraving in England in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, part III by M. Corbett and M. Norton, Cambridge 1964, p. 24, no. 45

Tarnya Cooper, Refashioning death: vanitas and memento mori prints from northern Europe 1514-c.1640 (exhibition catalogue, University College London), London 1997, no. 3

Wellcome Collection 34691i