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The dance of death : in a series of engravings on wood from designs attributed to Hans Holbein ; with a treatise on the subject
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Dance of Death.

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by Death with scythe and hour-glas.% with the markand date \-^ / \ 1550. Not in Bartsch.

A small wood-print of a gentleman conducting a lady,whose train is held up by Death with one hand, whilsthe holds up an hour-glass with the other. In a cornerbelow, the supposed mark of Jost de Negher, . %p .Upright, 2 by if. C

A German anonymous wood-piint of the prodigalson at a brothel, a female fool attending. Death unex-pectedly appears and takes him by the hand, whilstanother female is caressing him. Oblong, 4^ by 4.

An upright engraving on wood, 14 by 11, of a nakedfemale on a couch. Death with a spade and hour-glass approaches her. With her left hand she holdsone corner of a counterpane, Death seizing the other,and trampling upon it. Under the counterpane, and atthe foot of the couch is a dead and naked man graspinga sword in one hand. There is no indication of theartist of this singular print.

An upright wood engraving, 14^ by n, of a wholelength naked female turning her head to a mirror, whichshe holds behind her with both hands. Death, unnoticed,with an hour-glass, enters the apartment ; before him awheel. On the left at bottom a blank tablet, and near thewoman's left foot a large wing.

An engraving on wood by David Hopfer of Deathand the Devil surprising a worldly dame, who admiresherself in a mirror. Oblong, 8 inches by 5^.

An upright engraving of a lady holding in one hand a bunchof roses and in the other a glove. Death behind with hishour-glass ; the motto, omnem in homine venvstatem morsabolet. and the mark F. B. Bartsch, ix. 464.

A wood-print of Death seizing a child. On the left,at top, is a blank tablet. Upright, 2\ by 2.

A small oblong anonymous engraving of a naked femaleasleep on a couch. A winged Death places an hour-glasson her shoulder. A lascivious print.

An ancient anonymous wood-print : scene, a forest.Death habited as a woodman, with a hatchet at his girdleand a scythe, shoots his arrows into a youth with a largeplume of feathers, a female and a man ^ying prostrate on