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
Newton's Dances of Death, 165.
Nieuhoff, Piccard, 130, 140.
Nuremberg Chronicle, a cut from it described, 170.
a story from it, 6.
O.
Old Franks, a curious painting by him, 204, 221.
Oliver, Isaac, his copy of a painting by Holbein, at Whitehall, 145, 221.
Orgagna, Andrea, his painting at the Campo Santo, 32.
Ortulus Rosarum, 170.
Otho Vænius, a curious painting by him, 204, 222.
Ottley, Mr. his opinion in favour of Holbein as the designer of the
Lyons wood-cuts, 88.
proof impressions of the Lyons wood-cuts in his valuable collection,
85.
P.
Palingenius, his "Zodiacus Vitæ," a frontispiece to this work described,
186.
Panneels, William, a scholar of Rubens, mention of a painting by him,
203.
Papillon, his ludicrous mistakes noticed, 110, 114.
Patin, Charles, a traveller, and a libeller of the English, 79, 138, 237.
Paulmy, Marquis de, his mistake concerning the Dance of Death, 238.
Paul's St., mention of the Dance of Death formerly there, 51, 163.
Peasants, a dance of, painted at Basle, by Holbein, 80.
Peignot, M. author of "Les Danses de Mort," an interesting work, preface.
his misconception relating to John Porey, 248.
Perriere, his "Morosophie," 179.
Petrarch, his triumph of Death, 175, 207.
his work "de remediis utriusque fortunæ," 175.
Pfister, Albert, his "Tribunal Mortis," 168.
Piccard, Nieuhoff, 130, 140.
Piers Plowman, lines from, 54.
Porey, John, a mistake concerning him corrected, 248.
Potter, P. an allegorical engraving after him, 199.
Prints, single, relating to the Dance of Death, list of, 188.
Prior, Matthew, his lines on the Dance of Death, 145.
Psalter of 1457, a beautiful initial letter in it noticed, 213.
of Richard II., a manuscript in the British Museum, 222.
R.
Rabbi Santo, a Jewish poet, about 1360, 25.
Ratdolt, a Venetian printer, not, as usually supposed, the inventor of
initial or capital letters, 213.
Rembrandt, drawing of a Dance of Death by him, 223.
etching by him, 195.
René, of Anjou, painted a Dance of Death, 221.
Reperdius, Geo. an eminent painter at Lyons, 93.
Revelations, prints of the, 175.
Reusner, his emblems, 179.
Rive, Abbé, his bibliography of the Macaber Dance, 75.
Rivoire, his history of Amiens commended, 47.
Roderic, bishop of Zamora, 17, 32.
Rolandini's emblems, 180.
Rollenhagius's emblems, 182.
Roll of the Dance of Death, 1597, 163.
Rowlandson's Dance of Death, 156, 225, 248.
Rusting, Salomon Van, his Dance of Death, 131.
S.
[monogram: SA], some account of this monogram, 115.
its owner employed by Plantin, the famous printer at Antwerp, 116.
Salisbury missal, singular cut in one, 172.
Sallaerts, an artist supposed to have been employed by Plantin the
celebrated printer, 115, 116.
Sancta Clara, Abraham, a description of his "universal mirror of Death,"
151.
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