Shipwrecked Sailors and Death postcard

Shipwrecked Sailors and Death postcard: This is a vintage art/ Illistration from: The English Dance of Death book published 1816,art by Thomas Rowlandson, poetry, by William Combe circa 1815. Here you have Death sitting with two shipwrecked sailors looking bored as they look on in despair at their predicament. The Dance of Death, or Danse Macabre art/ genre you see Death approach people of all stations and walks of life, reaffirming that Death is the great leveler/equalizer. They were produced as an artistic genre of religious works from the 1400s thru the 1800s, period to remind people of the fragility of their lives and how vain are the glories/pleasures of earthly life