Death with Worldly Vanities, by Unknown (1720, c.)

Death with Worldly Vanities, by Unknown (1720, c.)

This engraving represents a skeleton throwing elements from a table to the ground. Among these elements we can find coins, a book, a musical instrument, a crown, etc. The skeleton itself does not display any specific gender traits.
Although the elements that the neutral skeleton is throwing from the table are usually elements representing male power, such as a crown, a Papal tiara and a miter, a mask with a female face is also included in the engraving.

Unknown.
Gallays Pierre (publisher) (c. 1677-1749)

National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, US.
https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.168700.html

Archived in:
https://web.archive.org/web/20190827152937/https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.168700.html

Accession Number: 2015.44.16

1720, c.

Engraving on laid paper.
Dimensions: 75.25 × 55.25 cm