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The Dance of Death.

of an alewife, with a vessel at her back. 6. The Ploughman,holding his implements of husbandry, is seized by Death,who sits on a plough and carries a scythe in his left hand.7. The Grave-digger, is pulled by Death into the gravewhich he has just completed. 8. The lame Messenger,led by Death. The size of the print 11 by 6\ inches.

6: Papillon states that Le Blond, an artist, then living atOrleans, engraved the Macaber Dance on wood for theDominotiers, or vendors of coloured prints for the commonpeople, and that the sheets, when put together, form asquare of three feet, and have verses underneath eachfigure. 4

There is a German work entitled " The process or law-suit of Death," printed, and perhaps written, by ConradFyner in 1477 i Dut as ft i s not noticed in Panzer's list ofGerman books, no further account of it can be given thanthat it is briefly mentioned by Joseph Heller, in a Germanwork on the subject of engraving on wood, in which onecut from it is introduced, that exhibits Death conversingwith a husbandman who holds a flail in one of his hands.It is probable that the book would be found to containother figures relating to a Macaber Dance.

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