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
Miser ego homo! quis me liberabit de corpore mortis hujus? _Rom._ vii.
XLVIII
THE LAST JUDGMENT
[Illustration]
Memorare novissima, et in æternum non peccabis. _Eccle._ vii.
XLIX
ALLEGORICAL ESCUTCHEON OF DEATH
[Illustration]
MARKS OF ENGRAVERS.
[monogram: G S.] 41, 117
[monogram: HL] 93, 97, 98, 100, 111, 113, 114, 215, 235
[monogram: H =N=] 100
[monogram: S.] 113
[monogram: SA] 113, 114, 115, 116, 127, 130, 136, 174
[monogram: W] 117
[monogram: cross] 117
[monogram] 118
[monogram: A] 124
[monogram: UH] 125
[monogram: WH] 125
[monogram: HB] 126
[monogram: HH] 126
[monogram: HHolbein] inv. 126, 129
H. HOLBEIN, inv. 126.
[monogram: W.] 130
[monogram: L B.f.] 130
[monogram: CI] 147, 248
[monogram: AC] 160, 190
[monogram: HF] 184
[monogram: L] 189
[monogram: VG] 189
[monogram] 190
[monogram] 190
[monogram] 191
[monogram: HM] 191
[monogram] 191
[monogram: BAD] 193
[monogram: I. F.] 219
[monogram] 223
[monogram: HS] 226
These are the marks erroneously given to Holbein,
BI.
Hf.
[monogram: HL]
[monogram: HL B.]
[monogram: HB.]
[monogram: HH.]
And these the marks which really belong to him,
HH.
HANS HOLB.
HANS HOLBEIN.
[monogram: 1519 HF]
[monogram: HF]
II H.
HANS HOLBEN.
[monogram: AH 1517]
[monogram: H [symbol] H]
[monogram: H-H]
INDEX.
A.
Æmylius, Geo. his verses, 84.
Alciatus, his emblems the earliest work of the kind, 180.
Aldegrever, his Dance of Death, 160.
Almanac, a Swiss one, with a Dance of Death, 76, 209.
Alphabets, several curious, 100, 214, 217.
Amman, Jost, a Dance of Death by him, 41.
Ars moriendi, some account of the last edition of it, 173.
Athyr, "Stamm-und Stechbuchlein," a rare and singular book of emblems,
180.
B.
Baldinucci, a mistake by him corrected, 235.
Basle, destruction of its celebrated painting of the Dance of Death, 39.
engravings of it, 41.
Beauclerc, Lady Diana, her ballad of Leonora, 210.
Bechstein, Ludwig, his edition of the Lyons' wood-cuts, 136.
Beham, Barthol., his Dance of Death, 190.
Bernard, le petit, his fine wood-cuts to the Old Testament, 173.
Berne almanac, a Dance of Death in one of them, 154.
Bock, Hans, not the painter of the Basle Dance of Death, 39.
Bodenehr, Maurice, a Dance of Death by him, 165.
"Boetius de consolatione," a figure of Death in an old edition of it,
171.
Bonaparte, Napoleon, a Dance of Death relating to him, 167.
Books in which a Dance of Death is occasionally introduced, 168.
Borbonius, Nicolas, his portrait, 140.
his verses, 92, 94, 139.
in England, 140.
Bosman, Arent, a singular old Dutch legend relating to him, 183.
Bosse, a curious engraving by him, 196.
Boxgrove church in Sussex, sculpture in, 226.
Brant, Sebastian, his stultifera navis, 170.
Bromiard, John De, his "Summa predicantium," a fine frontispiece to it,
183.
Buno, Conrad, a book of emblems by him, 181.
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