representations of the mower and death as the mower

To provide a bit less comical of a context for our discussion of Marvell's Mower poems, here is a litany of early representations of the mower from medieval illuminated manuscripts, among other sources.  http://www.hayinart.com/003277.html

You also might find medieval images of death as a mower useful for contextualizing Marvell's poems; this page has a good discussion of the imagery of death in the late medieval period, of which this image of "Denise Poncher before a Vision of Death" from an exhibit at the Getty Museum is typical:

 Here is a contemporary image from the popular "Dance of Death" genre:

The countryman and Death. From the Dance of Death by the Master of the Lübeck Bible, Lübeck, 1489.