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the following title,enschen," Leipsig,572,4to. 25 WhetherLe painting must bey be a later editions, that will be men-side of the Rhine,srected towards theloister belonging tof Death painted onl ruder in execution

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The Dance of Death.

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all that remained of this ancient painting, and which ispreserved in the public library at Basle. 26

The numerous mistakes that have been made by thosewriters who have mentioned the Basle painting have beenalready adverted to by M. Peignot, and are not, in thisplace, worthy of repetition. 27 That which requires mostparticular notice, and has been so frequently repeated, isthe making Hans Holbein the painter of it, who was notborn till a considerable time after its execution, and evenfor whose supposed retouching of a work, almost beneathhis notice in point of art, there is not the slightest authority.

In the small organ chapel, or, according to some, in theporch, of the church of St. Mary at Lubeck in LowerAlsace, there is, or was, a very ancient Dance of Death,said to have been painted in 1463. Dr. Nugent, who hasgiven some account of it, says that it is much talked of inall parts of Germany; that the figures were repaired atdifferent times, as in 1588, 1642, and last of all in 1701.The verses that originally accompanied it were in LowDutch, but at the last repair it was thought proper tochange them for German verses which were written byNathaniel Schlott of Dantzic. The Doctor has given anEnglish translation of them, made for him by a young ladyof Lubeck. 28 This painting has been engraved, and willbe again mentioned. Leipsic had also a Dance of Death,but no particulars of it seem to have been recorded.

In 1525 a similar Dance was painted at Anneberg inSaxony, which Fabricius seems alone to have noticed. Healso mentions another in 1534, at the palace of Duke George

26 Basle Guide Book. ^ Recherches, 11 et seq.

28 More on the subject of the Lubeck Dance of Death may be found in—1. An Anonymous work, which has on the last leaf, "Dodendantz,anno domini mccccxcvi. Lubeck." 2. "De Dodendantz fan KasparScheit, na der utgave fan, 1558, unde de Lubecker fan, 1463." This is apoem of four sheets in small 8vo. without mention of the place whereprinted. 3. Some account of this painting by Ludwig Suhl. Lubeck,1783, 4to. 4. A poem, in rhyme, with wood-cuts, on 34 leaves, in 8vo.It is fully described from the Helms, library in Brun's Beitrage zu krit.Bearb. alter handschr. p. 321 et seq. 5. Jacob a Mellen GrundliclieNachbricht von Lubeck, 1713, 8vo. p. 48. 6. Schlott LubikischersTodtentantz. 1701. 8vo. 7. Berkenmeyer, le curie ux antiquaire, 8vo.p. 530; and, 8. Nugent's Travels, i. 102. 8vo.