Long Strange Trip

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Because I Could Not Stop For Death

Poem by Emily Dickinson, published posthumously in "Poems: Series 1", 1890

Imago Mortis

Woodcut by Michael Wolgemut for the Nuremberg Chronicle, Germany, 1493

The Ossuary

Lithograph of a watercolor by Hieronymus Hess by C. Danzer, from The Dance of Death at Basel, Switzerland, 1839-1841 (Hess' copy is based on a 1773 copy by Emanuel Büchel, as the original mural was destroyed in 1805)

Long Strange Trip

Lyric from Truckin', Robert Hunter, American, 1970

Three Ages of Woman and Death

Painting by Hans Baldung Grien, Germany, 1510

Ingredimur Cuncti, Dives Cum Paupere Mixtus

Copperplate engraving on page 7 of Anatomia per Uso et Intelligenza del Disegno, by anatomist Bernardino Genga and artist Charles Errard, published by Domenico De Rossi, Rome Italy, 1691

Representation De La Mort

Multiple variants exist with slight differences, the more common reverse image is attributed to artist Antoine Dieu and engraver Johann Theodor De Bry, France, 1593

O. Die Stund Ist Aus

Engraving by Sebald Beham, a reverse copy of the original engraving by his brother Barthel Beham, Germany, 1548

Skeleton Rising from Tomb

Table 87 from Anatomia Humani Corporis, published by Govert Bidloo from drawings by Gerard de Lariesse, Dutch, 1685

Spotprent op de stijve plooikraag

Anonymous engraving, Netherlands, circa ~1600

Memento Homo

Color plate on page f.53r of The Book of Hours of René d'Anjou, produced for the Duke of Anjou by the workshop of the Rohan Master, Paris, 1405-1410

Death as a Strangler

Woodcut by Steinbrecher from the original by Alfred Rethel, inspired by an 1831 outbreak of Cholera in Paris, 1851

Der Tod im Baum

Angelo Jank, published in the German magazine Jugend in 1897

Introduction

One of 38 woodcuts from the Heidelberg Totentanz, printed by Heinrich Knoblochtzer, Germany, 1488

Mors Ultima Linea Rerum

Multiple variants exist, and attribution is a matter of debate, but one of the two copies in the British Museum is signed by Dutch engraver Egbert van Panderen, as is the Rijksmuseum copy, though that credits "Joannes Bernadinus S." (Giovanni Bernardino Siciliano?) as the original illustrator, Dutch, circa ~1610

Tarot of Lombardy

The 'death' card from the Ancient Tarot of Lombardy, published by Ferdinando Gumppenberg, Milano Italy, 1810

Tarot Of Marsailles

The 'death' card from the modern recreation of the Tarot Of Marsailles designed by Paul Marteau circa 1930 and printed by BP Grimaud, based on the 15th century original

Death and the Maiden

One of several paintings by Hans Baldung Grien known by the same name, Germany, 1518-20