The dance of death: the abbess. Woodcut by Hans Holbein the younger.

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1 print : woodcut ; image: 6.5 x 4.9 cm

Laudaui magis mortuos, quàm viuentes. Eccle. IIII. Plus ego laudaui Mortem, qũiuere, semper vita quòd hæc uarus est onerata malis. Nunc ingrata tamẽ me Mors detrusit ad illos fatorum rigida qui cecidere manu. B 2

A.S. Warthin, The physician of the dance of death; a historical study of the evolution of the dance of death mythus in art, New York 1931, pp. vii-xiii

W.L. Gundersheimer, The dance of death by Hans Holbein the younger, New York 1971, pp. vii-xiii

Wellcome Collection 29309i