The Dance of Death: Exhibited in Elegant Engravings on Wood with a Dissertation on the Several Representations of that Subject but More Particularly on Those Ascribed to Macaber and Hans HolbeinDouce, Francis
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The Dance of Death: Exhibited in Elegant Engravings on Wood with a Dissertation on the Several Representations of that Subject but More Particularly on Those Ascribed to Macaber and Hans Holbein
Douce, Francis
Bible. Old Testament -- Illustrations; Dance of death
A small wood print of a gentleman conducting a lady, whose train is held
up by Death with one hand, whilst he holds up an hour-glass with the
other. In a corner below, the supposed mark of Jost de Negher, [monogram].
Upright, 2 by 1-3/4.
A German anonymous wood print of the prodigal son at a brothel, a female
fool attending. Death unexpectedly appears and takes him by the hand,
whilst another female is caressing him. Oblong, 4-1/2 by 4.
An upright engraving on wood, 14 by 11, of a naked female on a couch.
Death with a spade and hour-glass approaches her. With her left hand she
holds one corner of a counterpane, Death seizing the other, and trampling
upon it. Under the counterpane, and at the foot of the couch is a dead and
naked man grasping a sword in one hand. There is no indication of the
artist of this singular print.
An upright wood engraving, 14-1/2 by 11, of a whole-length naked female
turning her head to a mirror, which she holds behind her with both hands.
Death, unnoticed, with an hour-glass, enters the apartment; before him a
wheel. On the left at bottom a blank tablet, and near the woman's left
foot a large wing.
An engraving on wood by David Hopfer of Death and the Devil surprizing a
worldly dame, who admires herself in a mirror. Oblong, 8 inches by 5-1/2.
An upright engraving of a lady holding in one hand a bunch of roses and in
the other a glove. Death behind with his hour-glass; the motto, OMNEM IN
HOMINE VENVSTATEM MORS ABOLET. and the mark F. B. Bartsch, ix. 464.
A wood print of Death seizing a child. On the left, at top, is a blank
tablet. Upright, 2-1/2 by 2.
A small oblong anonymous engraving of a naked female asleep on a couch. A
winged Death places an hour-glass on her shoulder. A lascivious print.
An ancient anonymous wood print: scene, a forest. Death habited as a
woodman, with a hatchet at his girdle and a scythe, shoots his arrows into
a youth with a large plume of feathers, a female and a man lying prostrate
on the ground; near them are two dead infants with amputated arms; the
whole group at the foot of a tree. In the back-ground, a stag wounded by
an arrow, probably by the young man. 4to. size.
A small wood-cut of Death seizing a child. Anonymous, in the manner of A.
Durer. 2-1/4 by 1-7/8.
A very old oblong wood-cut, which appears to have been part of a Dutch or
Flemish Macaber Dance. The subjects are, Death and the Pope, with "Die
doot seyt," "die paens seyt," &c. and the Cardinal with "Die doot seyt,"
and "Die Cardinael seyt." There have been verses under each character.
9-1/2 by 6-1/2.
A small wood print of a tree, in which are four men, one of whom falls
from the tree into a grave at the foot of it. Death, as a woodman, cuts
down the tree with a hatchet. In the back-ground, another man fallen into
a grave.
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