Image of drowning, distress, and damned souls in and around a boat in very rough waters. Death, holding an hour glass, sits at the back of the boat with an upraised arm, seeming to revel in all the suffering.
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Who pass'd, methought, the melancholy flood
With that grim ferryman which poets write of,
Unto the kingdom of perpetual night.
Richard III
The Death-Boat of Heligoland, E. Goodall, 1837
Yale Center for British Art
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