An Emblem of Mortality, (painting).

An Emblem of Mortality, (painting).

Turner, Charles Yardley, 1850-1918, painter.

An Emblem of Mortality, (painting).

20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 61.0 cm).

(Upper right:) C - Y - Turner - 1880 signed

An interior scene of a elderly man seated at a table on which there are open books and papers scattered, his attention directed to a skull that he holds in his hands.

Figure male -- Elderly

Allegory -- Death

Architecture interior

Object -- Written Matter -- Book

National Academy of Design, 1083 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10128

National Academy of Design Sixtieth Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York, 1885, (no. 457).

Owner, 1971: Registration Records.

Dearinger, David B., ed., "Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of the National Academy of Design, Volume I, 1826-1925," New York, NY: Hudson Hills Press, (National Academy of Design), 2004, pg. 542.

Dearinger, David B., ed., "Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of the National Academy of Design, Volume I, 1826-1925," New York, NY: Hudson Hills Press, (National Academy of Design), 2004, pg. 542.

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