The English dance of death, from the designs of Thomas Rowlandson;
A 1903 London reprint by Methuen of William Combe's verses illustrated by Thomas Rowlandson, the English dance of death series, drawn from late eighteenth-century designs. Its pictures are hand-coloured etchings in watercolour-like tints, with skeletons leading people of every rank, often in crowded comic scenes; a designer might borrow their loose pen line, satirical staging, and bold skeletal figures for macabre or humorous illustration.
