Title: life's ups-and-downs -- puck's improvement on cole's "voyage of life"
abstract: illustration shows two men on bicycles, one just starting out on life's journey, being towed by father time, the second one is nearing the end of life's journey and about to get caught by a scythe and thrown from the bicycle into a grave. Milestones and signs mark the journey: in youth there is "health", between 20 and 30 there is "happiness", at 40 there is "pleasure", at 50 "hope", at 60 there is "neglect", between 60 and 70 there is "regrets" and "sickness", at 80 there is "fear", and at 90 is an open grave with an owl perched on the mile-marker. At the top center is a "half way house" and at bottom center, in a floral arrangement, is an hourglass on top of a clock. Physical description: 1 print: chromolithograph. Notes: copyright 1883 by keppler & schwarzmann.;j. Keppler.;illus. From puck, v. 13, no. 331, (1883 july 11), centerfold.;title from item. Date: 1883.
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