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
De Pas, Crispin, description of a singular engraving by him, 196.
Descamps, his mistake about the Dance of Death, 235.
Deuchar, David, the Scottish Worlidge, his etchings of the Dance of
Death, 135.
Deutch, Nicolas Manuel, the painter of a Dance of Death at Berne, 224.
Devil's ruff-shop, 200.
De Vos, Martin, print after him of the Devil's ruff-shop, 200.
Diepenbecke, Abraham, designer of the borders to Hollar's etchings of
the Dance of Death, 125.
Dialogue of life and death, in "Dialogues of creatures moralized," 170.
Dominotiers, venders of coloured prints for the common people, 77.
Drawings of the Dance of Death, 222.
Druræi Mors, an excellent Latin comedy, 175.
Dugdale, his Monasticon, 129.
his St. Paul's, 129.
Durer, Albert, some prints by or after him described, 188, 189.
E.
Ear, the seat of memory among the Ancients, 3.
swearing by, 3.
Edwards, Mr. the bookseller, the possessor of Hollar's etchings of the
Dance of Death, 128.
Elizabeth, her prayer-book with a Dance of Death, 147, 247.
Emblems and fables relating to the Dance of Death, 179.
Engravings on wood, the earliest impressions of them not always the
best, 85, 90.
commendations of them in books printed in France, Germany, and Italy,
97.
Errors of miscellaneous writers on the Dance of Death, 236.
of travellers concerning it, 233.
of writers on painting and engraving concerning it, 234.
Evelyn, Mr. his mistake concerning the Dance of Death, 235.
F.
Fables relating to the Dance of Death, 179.
Faut mourir, le, 26.
Felibien, his mistake about the Dance of Death, 235.
Figeac, Champollion, his account of a Macaber Dance, 238.
Fleischmann, Counsellor, of Strasburg, drawings of a Dance of Death in
his possession, 134.
Fontenai, Abbé, his mistake concerning the Dance of Death, 236.
Fool and Death in old moralities, 177.
Fournier, his mistake concerning the Dance of Death, 237.
Fox, John, "Book of Christian Prayers," compiled by him, 147.
Francis I. an importer of fine artists into France, 92.
Francolin, a rare work by him described, 217.
Freidanck, 171.
Friderich's emblems, 180.
Frontispieces connected with the Dance of Death, described, 183.
Fulbert's vision of the dispute between the soul and the body, 32.
Fuseli, Mr. his opinion concerning the Dance of Death, 83.
Fyner, Conrad, his process or law-suit of Death.
G.
Gallitzin, Prince, some supposed drawings by Holbein of a Dance of Death
in his possession, 134.
Gem, an ancient one, with a skeleton as the representative of Death, 206.
Gerard, Mark, some etchings of fables by him, 179.
Gesner's Pandectæ, remarks on a passage in that work, 84.
Ghezzi, a figure of Death among his caricatures, 206.
Glarus, Franciscus à, his "Confusio disposita, &c." noticed as a very
singular work, 177.
Glass, painted, with a Dance of Death, 227.
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