The Dance of Death.

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the verv accurate and spirited manner in which the fineoriginal cuts are copied. It contains all the subjects thatwere then published, but not arranged as those had been.It has the addition of one singular print, entitled " DerEebrecher," /. e. the Adulterer, representing a man dis-covering the adulterer in bed with his wife, and plunginghis sword through both of them, Death guiding his hands.On the opposite page to each engraving there is a dialoguebetween Death and the party, and at bottom a Latinhexameter. The subject of the Pleader has the unknown

mark 3 VI ; and on that of the Duchess in bed, there is

the date 1542. From the above colophon we are to inferthat Dennecker, or as he is sometimes, and perhaps moreproperly, called De Necker or De Negher, was the engraver,as he is known to have executed many other engravings onwood, especially for Hans Schaufelin, with whom he wasconnected. He was also employed in the celebratedtriumph of Maximilian, and in a collection of saints, towhom the family of that emperor was related.

Ebert, in his " Bibliographisches Lexicon," Leipsig, 1821,4to. has mentioned some later editions of Dennecker'sengravings. See the article Denecker, p. 972.

X. " Emblems of Mortality, representing, in upwards offifty cuts, Death seizing all ranks and degrees of people, &c.Printed for T. Hodgson, in George's Court, St. John's Lane,Clerkenwell, T789." 121210. With an historical essay on thesubject, and translations of the Latin verses in the "ImaginesMortis," by John Sidney Hawkins, Esq. The cuts were en-graved by the brother of the celebrated Bewick, of New-castle-upon-Tyne, and a pupil of Hodgson, who was anengraver on wood of some merit at that time. They arebut indifferently executed, but would have been better hadthe artist been more liberally encouraged by the master,who was the publisher on his own account, Mr. Hawkinsvery kindly furnishing the letter-press. They are faithfulcopies of all the originals, except the first, which, con-taining a figure of the Deity habited as a Pope, wasscrupulously exchanged for another design. A frontispieceis aclded, representing Death leading up all classes of menand women.