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[What death takes from those who fall enters into those who are left standing]
Summary
Drawing shows only the right half of a two page spread with Death on horseback and as a skeleton carrying a scythe (the blade of which appears in the missing left half) racing to the right over bodies and the wreckage of war.
(DLC/PP-1934:0056).
Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).
Published in: "The Unquenchable Flame" by Maurice Maeterlinck, Cosmopolitan, 60:347 (Feb. 1916).
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Date
01/01/1916
Contributors
Benda, Wladyslaw T. (Wladyslaw Theodore), 1873-1948., artist
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions on publication.
