Death and the Cherubsdetails

Death and the Cherubs

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Six naked boys or putti dance holding up garlands; they have stars around their heads and their bare feet are on grass.

I am not certain how the naked boys with galands here and stars round their heads relate to the old man at centre kneeling in front of the putti, wearing only a breech-cloth, barefoot, sharpening his scythe. Is he Father Time, or Death, perhaps?

This piece was used as a chapterhead at the start of the magazine issue for June 1891, with no explanation.

chapterheads, boys, men, people, nudity, cherubs, putti, garlands, bare feet, scythes, death, spooky

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