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The Dance of Death.
45. Fool. 46. Blind Man. 47. Beggar. 48. Hermit.49. Corruption. 50. Last Judgment. 51. Allegory ofDeath's Arms, &c.
The designs and some of the engravings are by M.Rentz, for the most part original, with occasional hintsfrom the Lyons wood-cuts.
Another edition with some variation was printed atHamburg, 1759, folio.
VII. In the Lauenburg Calendar for 1792, are twelvedesigns by Chodowiecki for a Dance of Death. Theseare :—1. The Pope. 2. The King. 3. The Queen. 4. TheGeneral. 5. The Genealogist. 6. The Physician. 7. TheMother. 8. The Sentinel. 9. The Fish Woman. 10.The Beggar. 11. The Fille de joye and Bawd. 12. TheInfant.
VIII. A Dance of Death in one of the Berne Almanacs,consisting of the sixteen following subjects :—1. Death,fantastically dressed as a beau, seizes the city maiden. 2.Death wearing a Kevenhuller hat, takes the housemaid'sbroom from her. 3. Death seizes a terrified washerwoman.4. He takes some of the apple-woman's fruit out of herbasket. 5. The cellar-maid or tapster, standing at thedoor of an alehouse, is summoned by Death to accompanyhim. 6. He lays violent hands upon an abusive strumpet.7. In the habit of an old woman he lays hold of a midwifewith a newly-born infant in her hands. 8. With a shroudthrown over his shoulder, he summons the female mourner.9. In the character of a young man with a chapeau bras, hebrings a urinal for the physician's inspection. 10. Thelife-guardsman is accompanied by Death also on horsebackand wearing an enormous military hat. 11. Death with askillet on his head plunders the tinker's basket. 12.Death in a pair of jack-boots leads the postilion. 13.The lame beggar led by Death. 14. Death standing in agrave pulls the grave-digger towards him by the leg. 15.Death seated on a plough with a scythe in his left hand,seizes the farmer, who carries several implements of hus-bandry on his shoulders. 16. The fraudulent inn-keeperin the act of adulterating his liquor in the cask, is throttledby Death, who carries an ale vessel at his back. Thesefigures are cut on wood, in a free and masterly manner by