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
Le Blon, a circular print by him described, 197.
Le Comte, his mistake concerning the Dance of Death, 235.
Lubeck, a Dance of Death there, 163.
Lutzenberger, Hans, the engraver of the Lyons wood-cuts of the Dance of
Death, 98.
alphabets by him, 100.
various prints by him, 99.
Luyken's Emblems, 177, 178.
Lydgate, his Verses to the Macaber Dance, 29, 52.
Lyons, all the editions of the wood-cuts of the Dance of Death published
there described, 82, 103.
copies of them by Hollar, 125.
copies of them on copper, 121.
copies of them on wood, 111.
various imitations of some of them, 137.
Lyvijus, John, a print by him of two card players, 197.
M.
Macaber, a word falsely applied as the name of a supposed German poet,
28, 34.
its etymology discussed, 30, 34.
Macaber Dance, 13, 28.
copies or engravings of it as painted at Basle, 40.
destruction of the painting at Basle, 39.
manuscripts in which it is represented, 72.
not painted by Holbein, 38.
printed books, in which it is represented, 55.
representations of it at the following places:--
Amiens, 47.
Anneberg, 44.
Basle, 36.
Berlin, 48.
Berne, 45.
Burgos, 50.
Croydon, 54.
Dijon, 35.
Dresden, 44, 76.
Erfurth, 44.
Hexham, 53.
Holland, 49.
Klingenthal, 42.
Lubeck, 43.
Lucerne, 46.
Minden, 35.
Naples, 49.
Rouen, 47.
Salisbury, 52.
St. Paul's, 51, 76.
Strasburg, 47.
Tower of London, 54.
Vienne, 48.
Wortley Hall, 53.
Macarius Saint, painting of a legend relating to him, by Orgagna, at the
Campo Santo, 32, 33.
Malpé, M., his mistake concerning the Dance of Death, 236.
Mannichius, 180.
Manuel de Peché, by Grosthead, 7.
Mapes, Walter de, an allusion by him to a Dance of Death, 24.
vision of a dispute between the soul and the body, ascribed to him, 33.
Marks or monograms of engravers, their uncertainty, 102.
Marmi, Gio. Battista, his "Ritratte della Morte," 129.
Mechel, Chretien de, 132, 208, 214.
Meckenen, Israel Van, a Dance of Death by him, 160.
Meisner, his "Sciographia Cosmica," 180.
Melidæus, Jonas, a satirical work under this disguised name, intitled
"Res mira," 184.
Meyers, Rodolph, his Dance of Death, 148.
Meyssens, his mistake concerning the Dance of Death, 234.
Missal, an undescribed one, in the type of the psalter of 1457, 213.
Misson, the traveller, his mistake concerning the Dance of Death, 233.
Mitelli, Gio. Maria, a kind of Death's Dance, by him, 161.
Moncrief, his "March of Intellect," quoted for a print after Cruikshank,
178.
Montenaye, Georgette de, her emblems, 179.
"Mors," an excellent Latin comedy, by William Drury, 175.
Mortimer, a sketch by him of Death seizing several persons, 209.
Mortilogus, 171.
N.
Negro figure of Death, 230.
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