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CHAPTER XL

Dances of Death, with such text only as describes the subjects.

| IX small circles on a single sheet,engraved on copper by Israel VanMeckenen. i. Christ sitting on hiscross. 2. Three skulls on a table. 3.Death and the Pope. 4. Death ridingon a lion, and the Patriarch. 5. Deathand the Standard-bearer. 6. Deathand the Lady. At top " mementomori," at bottom "Israhel V. M."

II. A Dance of Death, engraved on copper, by HenryAldegrever. 1. Creation of Eve. 2. Adam and Eveeating the forbidden fruit. 3. Expulsion from Paradise.4. Adam digging, Eve spinning. 5. Death and the Pope.6. Death and the Cardinal. 7. Death and the Bishop. 8.Death and the Abbot. All these have the date 1541, andwith some variations follow the Lyons wood-cuts. Theyhave scriptural texts in Latin. 121x10. The whole were"afterwards copied in a work by Kieser, already described,p. 107.

III. A Dance of Death, consisting of eight subjects;engraved on copper by an unknown artist, whose mark is^3", 1. Death beating a drum, precedes a lady and