PLATE XXVII.—THE GENTLEMAN.
He is doing every thing in his power to put off the moment that is to separate him for ever from his possessions, and his fine seat, which appears in the back ground; but Death inexorable has already set down beside him the fatal bier, into which he is about to make him enter.
Quis est homo, qui vivet, et non videbit mortem: eruet animam suam de manu inferi? Psal. lxxxviii. 49.