A Mockery

All Resolutions

It is a modest creed, and yet
Pleasant if one considers it,
To own that death itself must be,
Like all the rest, a mockery.

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Artist

Name:
Robinson, Charles
Dates:
1870-1937
Country:
UK

Illustration

Subject:
Narratives
Technique:
Color Process
Format:
Portrait (taller)
Source:
The Robarts Library, the Internet Archive

Book

Title:
The sensitive plant
Author:
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
Publisher:
London, Philadelphia: William Heinemann, J. B. Lippincott Company, n.d. [1911]
Open Library:
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Description:

A half-naked woman sitting on a tomb holds up a skull in front of her, surrounded by moonlit woods, while a Cupid-like figure on a nearby branch lifts a bow, preparing to shoot an arrow in her direction.

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