Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library
Miseries of human life
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827 · 1808
The title in a frame ; below it a gouty old miser, wrapped in flannel, is being dragged off in his chair by Death, in spite of his crutch and his struggles to get back to his riches, spread in the strong box, over which he has lost all control ; his heirs in the meantime are helping themselves, making light of his hoarded savings, and taunting the impotent money-grubber, who has accumulated riches for them to fling away.
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