Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810, Italian, Death's Door, 1808, published 1813
- Title:
- Death's Door
- Part Of:
- Date:
- 1808, published 1813
- Materials & Techniques:
- Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 15 × 11 3/8 inches (38.1 × 28.9 cm), Plate: 11 3/4 × 6 7/8 inches (29.8 × 17.5 cm), Image: 9 1/2 × 5 1/2 inches (24.1 × 14 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered upper right: "P.32."; below image, lower center: "Death's Door | 'Tis but a Night, a long and moonless Night, | We make the Grave our Bed, and then are gone! | London, Published March 1 1813 by R. Ackermann 101 Strand"; lower left: "Drawn by W. Blake"; lower right: "Etched by L.Schiavonetti"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1974.8.7
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- death | door | doorway | elder | knocker | men | nude | religious and mythological subject | rock | sitting | stick | stone | sun | youth
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:23412
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