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
Sandrart, his notice of a work by Holbein at Whitehall, 145.
Schauffelin, Hans, a carving on wood by him described, 226.
Schellenberg, I. R. a Dance of Death by him, 154.
Schlotthaver, his edition of a Dance of Death, 249.
Silvius, or Sylvius, Antony, an artist at Antwerp, account of a monogram
supposed to belong to him, 115.
Skeleton, use made of the human by the ancients, 3.
"Spectriana," a modern French work, frontispiece to it described, 187.
Stelsius, his edition of a spurious copy of Holbein's Bible cuts, 97.
Stettler, his drawings of the Macaber Dance of Death at Berne, 224.
"Stotzinger symbolum," description of a cut so intitled, 174.
Stradanus, an engraving after him described, 197.
Susanna, a Latin play, 18.
Symeoni, "Imprese," 179.
T.
Tapestry at the Tower of London, 227.
"Theatrum Mortis," a work with a Dance of Death described, 129.
Tiepolo, a clever etching by him described, 197.
Title-pages connected with the Dance of Death, list of, 183.
Tory, Geoffrey, Horæ printed by him described, 172.
Tower of London, tapestry formerly there of a Dance of Death, 227.
Trois mors et trois vifs, 31, 33, 228.
Turner, Col., a Dance of Death by him, 207.
Turnham Green, some account of chalk drawings of a Dance of Death on a
wall there, 210, 224.
Typotii symbola, 180, 182.
U.
Urs Graaf, his engravings noticed, 243.
V.
Vænius, Otho, some of his works mentioned, 182, 204.
Valckert, a clever etching by him described, 201.
Van Assen, a Dance of Death by him, 158.
Van Leyden, Lucas, 189.
Van Meckenen, Israel, his Dance of Death in circles, 160.
Van Sichem, his prints to the Bible, 177.
Van Venne, prints after him, 157, 182, 199, 209.
Verses that accompany the Dance of Death, 17.
Von Menzel, 207.
"Voyage pour l'eternité," a modern Dance of Death, 157.
W.
Walpole, Mr. his mistake concerning the Dance of Death, 236.
Warton, Mr. his remarks on the Dance of Death, 237.
Weiss, Mr. author of some of the best lives in the "Biographie
Universelle," misled in his article "Macaber" by Champollion Figeac,
249.
Whitehall, fire at, 140.
painting of a Dance of Death there by Holbein, 141.
Wierix, John, some prints by him described, 194, 195.
Williams, Miss, her mistake concerning the Dance of Death at Basle, in
her Swiss tour, 233.
Wolschaten, Geeraerdt Van, a Dance of Death by him, 130.
Wood, engravings on, the first impressions of them not always the best,
85.
Wood, Mr. his mistake concerning the Dance of Death in his "View of
Switzerland," 233.
Y.
"Youth's Tragedy," a moral drama, 1671, 175.
Z.
Zani, Abbate, of opinion that Holbein had no concern in the Lyons
wood-cuts of the Dance of Death, 98, 101, 138.
Zuinger, his account of paintings at Basle, 139.
C. WHITTINGHAM, TOOKS COURT, CHANCERY LANE.
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