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Percy John Delf Smith — Dance of Death: Death Waits
Percy John Delf Smith

Dance of Death: Death Waits

1919

Embodying the patient inevitability of mortality, the composition captures death as an ever-present specter lurking at the edges of human existence.

Medium
etching

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Percy John Delf Smith, Dance of Death: Death Waits, 1919

Embodying the patient inevitability of mortality, the composition captures death as an ever-present specter lurking at the edges of human existence.

Medium
etching
Year
1919
Seen at
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Related themes

Skeletal Figure, Memento Mori, Etching, Printmaking, Early 20th Century, Symbolism, Dance of Death, British

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