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Brown ink drawing in an oval: a man lies in a canopied bed while a hooded skeleton sits beside him, holding his hand.

Skeleton beside a dying man's bed, pen and brown ink drawing

A pen-and-brown-ink drawing in an oval vignette shows a man lying in a canopied bed beneath a beamed ceiling. At right, a skeleton in a long hooded robe sits beside the bed, one bony hand resting on the dying man's hand.

Artist
Hablot Knight Browne
Date
[between 1800 and 1899]
Medium
Drawings
Source
Wellcome Collection
Size
2727 × 4000 px
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Public domain · Licensed CC BY 4.0 (Wellcome Collection) by Wellcome Collection; credit required.
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier C · as stated by the source: CC BY 4.0 (Wellcome Collection)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Wellcome Collection. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)