Percy John Delf Smith, R.D.I. 1882-1948.

6. Death Ponders. 1921. Etching and drypoint. 8 x 9 7/8 (sheet 10 1/4 x 13 1/4). Series: The Dance of Death 1914-1918, #6. Edition 100, #36. Remnants of glassine hinges; otherwise pristine condition. A rich impression with velvety drypoint bu, printed on cream wove paper. Signed and titled in pencil. $20,000 the complete set.

Campbell Dodgson, C.B.E., Keeper of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum wrote: "Death Ponders, tall, erect, in cowl and shroud gathered closely round his bones, by the side of a fallen man, whose hands clutch the soil of a bank before him. His life depends on the outcome of that deliberate reflection," Print Collector's Quarterly 8 (1921): 326.

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