All Is Vanity Skull
Style# 509
Gothic & Macabre
$7.00
An excellent way to carry art with you. This pocket mirror features a fun, memento mori style, illustration created by Charles Allan Gilbert entitled All Is Vanity in 1892. A great visual illusion.
- Pocket mirrors come packaged complete with a velvet bag for safe keeping.
- Dimensions: 2.25 Diameter.
- Design on one side with real glass mirror on the other side.
Skulls have played a part in ritual and art since ritual and art began. Paleolithic Cave Drawings and burial sites, Hamlet, Memento Mori, tragedy. There is also quite a collection of skulls with hidden and not so hidden images drawn or painted into them. This is most likely the first of this style. If not the first, it is the most often copied of this style. This one is titled "All is Vanity".