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
Burnet, Bishop, his ambiguous account of a Dance of Death at Basle, 79,
138.
C.
Calendrier des Bergers, 170.
Callot, drawings by him of a Dance of Death in the collection of Sir
Tho. Lawrence, 223.
Camus, M. de, a ludicrous mistake by him, 169.
Catz's emblems, 182.
Cavallero determinado, 174.
Centre de l'amour, a singular book of emblems, 182.
Chertablon, "Maniere de se bien preparer à la mort," 177.
"Chevalier de la tour," a singular print from this curious romance, 171.
Chodowiecki, his engravings relating to the Dance of Death, 153, 207,
208.
Chorier, his "Antiquités de Vienne," 48.
Cogeler, "Imagines elegantissimæ, &c." 173.
Coleraine, I. Nixon, his Dance of Death on a fan, 159.
Colman's "Death's duell," 185.
Compan, M. his mistake about a Dance of Death, 237.
Coppa, a poem ascribed to Virgil, 3.
Cossiers, John, a curious print after him, 199.
Coverdale's Bible, with initials of a Dance of Death, 217.
Coxe's travels in Switzerland, some account in them of M. Crozat's
drawings, 134.
Crozat, M. De, account of some supposed drawings by Holbein in his
collection, 134.
D.
Dagger, design for the sheath of one by Holbein, 133.
Dagley's "Death's doings," 157, 210, 224.
Dance of Death, a pageant, 5.
Danish one, 159.
known to the ancients, 12.
one at Pompeii, 13.
the term sometimes improperly used, 81.
verses belonging to it, 17.
where sculptured and painted, 17.
Dance, Mr. the painter, his imitation of a subject in the Dance of Death
in his portrait of Mr. Garrick, 137.
Dances of Death, with such text only as describes the subject, 160.
anonymous, 161, 162, 163, 164.
at the following places,
Amiens, 47.
Anneberg, 44.
Avignon, 221.
Basle, 36.
Berlin, 48.
Berne, 45.
Blois, 47.
Croydon, 54.
Dijon, 35.
Dresden, 44.
Erfurth, 44.
Fescamp, 47.
Hexham, 53.
Holland, 49.
Italy, 49.
Klingenthal, 42.
Leipsic, 44.
Lubeck, 43.
Lucerne, 46.
Minden, 35.
Nuremberg, 45.
Paris, 14, 33, 35.
Rouen, 47.
Salisbury, 52.
St. Paul's, 51, 76.
Spain, 50.
Strasburg, 47.
Tower of London, 54.
Vienne, in Dauphiné, 48.
Wortley Hall, 53.
Dancing in temples and churchyards, 5, 6.
Daniel, Mr. an unique print of a Dance of Death in his possession, 248.
Danse aux aveugles, 231.
Death and the Lady, 226.
how personified by the Ancients, 1.
not in itself terrific, 4.
to Dr. Quackery, 211.
De Bry, prints by him, 180, 183, 195.
Dedication to the first edition of the Lyons wood-cuts, 86.
mistakes in it, 87.
De Gheyn, prints by him, 198, 205.
De la Motte's fables, 183.
Della Bella, 162.
De Murr, his mistake about the Dance of Death, 235
Dennecker, or De Necker, Jobst, Dances of Death by him, 40, 42, 85, 118.
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