A sickly young woman sits covered up on a balcony; death (a ghostly skeleton clutching a scythe and an hourglass) is standing next to her; representing tuberculosis. Watercolour by R. Cooper, ca. 1912.

  • Cooper, Richard Tennant, 1885-1957.
Date:
[1912?]
Reference:
24009i

Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Credit: A sickly young woman sits covered up on a balcony; death (a ghostly skeleton clutching a scythe and an hourglass) is standing next to her; representing tuberculosis. Watercolour by R. Cooper, ca. 1912. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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