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
Holbein's Bible cuts.--Examination of the claim of Hans
Lutzenberger as to the design or execution of the Lyons
engravings of the Dance of Death.--Other works by him 94
CHAPTER VIII.
List of several editions of the Lyons work on the Dance of
Death with the mark of Lutzenberger.--Copies of them on
wood.--Copies on copper by anonymous artists.--By Wenceslaus
Hollar.--Other anonymous artists.--Nieuhoff Picard.--
Rusting.--Mechel.--Crozat's drawings.--Deuchar.--Imitations
of some of the subjects 103
CHAPTER IX.
Further examination of Holbein's title.--Borbonius.--
Biographical notice of Holbein.--Painting of a Dance of Death
at Whitehall by him 138
CHAPTER X.
Other Dances of Death 146
CHAPTER XI.
Dances of Death, with such text only as describes the subjects 160
CHAPTER XII.
Books in which the subject is occasionally introduced 168
CHAPTER XIII.
Books of emblems and fables.--Frontispieces and title-pages
in some degree connected with the Dance of Death 179
CHAPTER XIV.
Single prints connected with the Dance of Death 188
CHAPTER XV.
Initial or capital Letters with the Dance of Death 213
CHAPTER XVI.
Paintings.--Drawings.--Miscellaneous 221
CHAPTER XVII.
Trois vifs et trois morts.--Negro figure of Death.--Danse aux
Aveugles 228
CHAPTER XVIII.
Errors of various writers who have introduced the subject of
the Dance of Death 233
ERRATA.
Page 7, line 25, for _Boistuan_ read _Boistuau_.
7, ... 26, for _Prodigeuses_ read _Prodigieuses_.
28, ... 14, read _in Holland_, &c.
32, ... 23, for _Lamorensi_ read _Zamorensi_.
81, ... 4, for _fex_ read _sex_.
88, ... 10, after _difficulty_ add ?
89, ... 21, after _works_ add "
180, ... 23, for _Typotia_ read _Typotii_.
197, ... 8, for _Stradamus_ read _Stradanus_.
THE Dance of Death.
CHAPTER I.
_Personification of Death, and other modes of representing it among
the Ancients.--Same subject during the Middle Ages.--Erroneous notions
respecting Death.--Monumental absurdities.--Allegorical pageant of the
Dance of Death represented in early times by living persons in
churches and cemeteries.--Some of these dances described.--Not unknown
to the Ancients.--Introduction of the infernal, or dance of Macaber._
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