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Title: Death and Cupid
Period: 1750-1800;
Description: The scene is taken place outside, there is multiple human and angel like figures in the image. One being cupid Is holding up a bow and arrow towards another human laying down. Another skeleton looking figure (most likely representing death) is also pointing a bow and towards two humans sitting down, one is holding flowers in one hand and what looks like a garland in another hand while the other human is hugging the other.
Image Creator: Annoymous (Anonymous);(); Annoymous (Anonymous); ()
Type: Text; Engraving
Identifier: mta:28730
Language: eng
Source Name: The Fables of Aesop
Parent Collection: E6 - Fables translated from AEsop. Engravings by A. Walker. (1760); E6 - Fables translated from AEsop. Engravings by A. Walker. (1760)
Image: mta_28730_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Aesop's Fables
Subject: Death; Cupid; Humans; Skeleton; Bow and Arrow; Garland