The English dance of death, from the designs of Thomas Rowlandson;
A 1903 London reprint by Methuen of William Combe's verse set to Thomas Rowlandson's caricature plates, for a general readership interested in the dance of death theme. The pictures are hand-coloured etchings in which skeletons lead people of every class through comic scenes of doctors, tradesmen, dancers and drinkers, with rhyming couplets printed beneath. A designer could take their loose, exaggerated figures, crowded interiors and mocking tone for satirical or macabre illustration work.
