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
Glissenti, his "Discorsi morali," 112.
his "Morte inamorata," 246.
Gobin le gay, a name of one of the shepherds in an old print of the
Adoration, 69.
Gobin, Robert, his "loups ravissans," remarkable for a Dance of Death,
146.
Goethe, a Dance of Death in one of his works, 178, 211.
Gole, a mezzotinto by him of Death and the Miser, 203.
Goujet, his mistake about the Dance of Death at Basle, 233.
Graaf, Urs, a print by him, and his monogram described, 189.
Grandville, "Voyage pour l'eternité," 157.
Gray, Rev. Robert, his mistake about the Dance of Death at Basle, 233.
Gringoire, Pierre, his "Heures de Notre Dame," 172.
Grosthead, story from his "Manuel de Péché," 7.
Guilleville, "Pelerin de la vie humaine," 175.
H.
Harding, an etching by him of "Death and the Doctor," 211.
Hawes's "Pastime of Pleasure," two prints from it described, 173.
Heemskirk, Martin, a print by him described, 193, 199.
Hegner, his life of Holbein, 240.
Heymans, Mynheer, a dedication to him, 141.
Historia della Morte, a poem so called, 176.
Holbein, a German, life of him by Hegner, 240.
ambiguity with respect to the paintings at Basle ascribed to him, 81.
dance of peasants by him, 80.
engravings by him with his name, 95.
his Bible prints, 94.
his connexion with the Dance of Death, 78, 138.
his death, in 1554, 144.
his name not in the early editions of the Lyons wood-cuts, 92.
lives of him very defective, 143.
more particulars relating to him, 143.
not the painter of the Dance of Death at Basle, 38, 43, 144.
paints a Dance of Death at Whitehall, 141.
satirical painting of Erasmus by him, 221.
Hollar, his copies of the Dance of Death, 125.
Hopfer, David, his print of Death and the Devil, 191.
Horæ, manuscripts of this service book with the Macaber Dance, 60.
printed copies of it with the same, and some similar designs, 72.
Huber and Rust, their mistake concerning Holbein, 236.
I.
Jacques, Maitre, his "le faut mourir," 26.
Jansen, his mistake concerning the Dance of Death, 236.
Imitations of and from the Lyons wood-cuts, 137.
Initial letters with a Dance of Death, 213, 214, 217.
Innocent III. Pope, his work "de vilitate conditionis humanæ," 172.
K.
Karamsin, Nicolai, his account of a Dance of Death, 44.
Kauw, his drawing of a Dance of Death, at Berne, 224.
Kerver, Thielman, his editions of "Horæ," 174.
Klauber, John Hugh, a painter of a Dance of Death at Basle, 36, 42.
L.
Langlois, an engraving by him described, 198.
Larvæ and lemures, confusion among the ancients as to their respective
qualities, 4.
"Last drop," an etching so intitled, 211.
a drawing of the same subject, 224.
Lavenberg calendar, prints by Chodowiecki in it, 153.
Lawrence, Sir Thomas, drawings by Callot of a Dance of Death in his
possession, 223.
"Lawyer's last circuit," a caricature print, 209.
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