'and when Death himself Knocked at my door'

59 x 48cm, including the frame. Black and white print, framed, glazed and complete with a mounting board. No given title. Two textual inserts one (left) from Tristram Shandy; 'and when Death himself Knocked at my door/; ye bad him come again;and in so gay a tone/; of careless indifference, did ye do it, that he/ ;doubted of his Commission. There must cert-/; ainly be some Mistake in this Matter," quoth he' beneath is written 'Price half-Crown'. On the right side is the Italian translation beaneath which is written 'Patch pinx. et Sculp. Floren'. Between the two texts is a pictorial Mimento Mori of a moth (butterfly?) in the process of immolation in a torch.