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A man embraces a female figure holding an anchor who is standing on a sack filled with money while Death enters the room. Etching.
Wellcome Collection

A man embraces a female figure holding an anchor who is standing on a sack filled with money while Death enters the room. Etching.

Unknown artist

CC0 — Public Domain
Wellcome Collection

Lettering: Namque ubi Mors trucibus supra caput adstitit armis hes, quàm tunc nullo pondere nummus erit.

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