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
IV. "Rudolph Meyers S: Todten dantz ergantz et und heraus gegeben durch
Conrad Meyern Maalern in Zurich, im jahr 1650." On an engraved title page,
representing an angel blowing a trumpet, with a motto from the Apocalypse.
Death or Time holds a lettered label with the above inscription or title.
In the back ground groups of small figures allusive to the last judgment.
Then follows a printed title "Sterbenspiegel das ist sonnenklare
vorstellung menschlicher nichtigkeit durch alle Stand und Geschlechter:
vermitlest 60 dienstlicher kupferblatteren lehrreicher uberschrifften und
beweglicher zu vier stimmen auszgesetzter Todtengesangen, vor disem
angefangen durch Rudolffen Meyern S. von Zurich, &c. Jetzaber zu erwekung
nohtwendiger Todsbetrachtung verachtung irdischer eytelkeit; und beliebung
seliger ewigkeit zuend gebracht und verlegt durch Conrad Meyern Maalern in
Zurich und daselbsten bey ihme zufinden. Getruckt zu Zürich bey Johann
Jacob Bodmer, MDCL." 4to. that is: The Mirror of Death--that is--a
brilliant representation of human nothingness in all ranks and conditions,
by means of 60 appropriate Copperplates, spiritual superscriptions, and
moving songs of Death, arranged for four voices, formerly commenced by
Rudolph Meyer of Zurich, &c. but now brought to an end and completed, for
the awaking of a necessary consideration of death, a contempt of earthly
vanity, and a love of blissful eternity, by _Conrad_ Meyer of Zurich, of
whom they are to be had. Printed at Zurich, by John Jacob Bodmer, MDCL.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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