Death sits out this dance.  Colored aquatint by Thomas Rowlandson, 1816.

"They drew his soul with them," from "The Harp of Invermorn" by William Black, in Once a Week, 1864.

"45° below zero--and he's lost the matches," from Sketches of Hudson Bay Life by H. Bullock Webster, c. 1875.

From Gulden-Spiegel by Jacob Coenraeds Mayvogel, 1699.

"The dance of death," from Once a Week, 1865.

"One day the dreary old King Death, / Inclined for some sport with the carnal; / So he took his shaft, well used to that craft, / And quietly stole from his charnel."  Color lithograph by Edward Hull, 1827.

From Once a Week, 1866.

A daydream of Death taking out heroes and damsels, scholars and businessmen and schoolboys, as king and clergy look on.  From Once a Week, 1865.

From Hunter College's Wistarion yearbook, 1916.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

"Death saw two Players playing at Cards, / But the game was not worth a dump; / For he quickly laid them flat with a spade, / To wait for the final 'Trump.'"  A color lithograph by Edward Hull, 1827.

"A sickly female invalid sits covered up on a balcony overlooking a beautiful view; death (a ghostly skeleton clenching a scythe and an hourglass) is standing next to her, representing tuberculosis.  Watercolour by R. Cooper."

"Booklet advertising Peps tablets for coughs and colds.  Sensational cover (orange and blue) of a skull-faced Death in a swirling dark cloud over a city from which terrified inhabitants are fleeing on foot, in cars, bicycles and horse-drawn carriages.  Refers to deaths during heavy fogs in cities, bronchial asthma, bronchitis, colds, cough, sore throat, pulmonary tuberculosis, influenza, pleurisy, pneumonia and factory cough."  From 1913.

From Simboli Predicabili by Carlo Labia, 1692.