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
These are the characters. "The Emperor, the King, the Duke, the Marques,
the Baron, the Vicount, the Archbishop, the Bishop, the Doctor, the
Preacher, the Lord, the Knight, the Esquire, the Gentleman, the Judge, the
Justice, the Serjeant at law, the Attorney, the Mayor, the Shirife, the
Bailife, the Constable, the Physitian, the Astronomer, the Herauld, the
Sergeant at arms, the Trumpetter, the Pursevant, the Dromme, the Fife, the
Captaine, the Souldier, the Marchant, the Citizen, the Printers (in two
compartments), the Rich Man, the Aged Man, the Artificer, the Husbandman,
the Musicians (in two compartments), the Shepheard, the Foole, the Beggar,
the Roge, of Youth, of Infancie." Then the females. "The Empresse, the
Queene, the Princes, the Duchesse, the Countesse, the Vicountesse, the
Baronnesse, the Lady, the Judge's Wife, the Lawyer's Wife, the
Gentlewoman, the Alderman's Wife, the Marchantes Wife, the Citizen's Wife,
the Rich Man's Wife, the Young Woman, the Mayde, the Damosell, the
Farmar's Wife, the Husbandman's Wife, the Countriwoman, the Nurse, the
Shepheard's Wife, the Aged Woman, the Creeple, the Poore Woman, the
Infant, the (female) Foole." All these are designed in a masterly manner,
and delicately engraved. The figures of the Deaths occasionally abound in
much humour, and always with appropriate characters. The names of the
unknown artists were worthy of being recorded.
III. "Icones mortis, sexaginta imaginibus totidemque inscriptionibus
insignitæ versibus quoque Latinis et novis Germanicis illustratæ.
Norimbergæ Christ. Lockner, 1648, 8vo."[133]
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