Transcriber’s Note: Larger versions of illustrations are provided as linked images, for the detail of the engravings.

EMBLEMS
OF
MORTALITY;

REPRESENTING,
IN UPWARDS OF FIFTY CUTS,
DEATH
SEIZING ALL RANKS AND DEGREES
OF PEOPLE;

Imitated from a Painting in the Cemetery of the Dominican Church at Basil, in Switzerland:

With an Apostrophe to each, translated from the Latin and French.

Intended as well for the Information of the Curious, as the Instruction and Entertainment of Youth.

TO WHICH IS PREFIXED

A copious Preface, containing an historical Account of the above, and other Paintings on this Subject, now or lately existing in divers Parts of Europe.

LONDON:
Printed for T. Hodgson, in George’s-Court,
St. John’s-Lane, Clerkenwell.
M DCC LXXXIX.

EMBLEMSOFMORTALITY;

EMBLEMS
OF
MORTALITY;