Der Hof des Todes - nach dem Originalgemälde von Rembrandt Peale / lith. von Sarony, Major & Knapp, 449 Broadway, N.Y.

Print showing religious allegory based on a poem by Beilby Porteus, Bishop of London. Death sits on his throne in a cave. His agents include war, fire, famine, pestilence, pleasure, intemperance, remorse, delirium tremens, suicide, and disease. Old Age, an elderly man, is supported by a woman, Faith. Charles Willson Peale, the artist's father, served as a model for Old Age.

Inscribed in ink at bottom: Deposited in Clerk's Office, Southern District of New York, Dec. 1, 1859.
Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1859 by G.Q. Colton, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern district of New York.
Rembrandt Peale's 1820 painting, acquired by G.Q. Colton in 1859, was reproduced and sold. The original painting is now in the collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts.