This etching revives the distinctive Dutch seventeenth-century painting category of vanitas still-life.
One or more skulls in isolation was a tradition established by Angeren’s seventeenth-century predecessor, Hercules Seers (1589/90-1633/38).
Purchased 2001 (No. 2001.1).
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