print
- Museum number
- 1868,0822.479
- Title
- Series: Dance of Death
- Description
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The Pope seated on a canopied throne on the left, with Death behind, about to crown a kneeling man whose sword and orb lie beside him; ecclesiastics and a skeleton on right; in elaborate architectural frame with Minerva as a caryatid on the left, and Hercules on the right; at top is a skull with a triple crown and the crowns and headgeat of popes, cardinals, emperors, and peers on either side; at bottom a skull and cross-bones with tools of industry on left and weapons of war on right; after Hans Holbein the Younger; the border from a separate plate after Abraham van Diepenbeeck; first state. 1651
Etching, from two plates
- Production date
- 1651
- Dimensions
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Height: 75 millimetres (image, plate mark)
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Height: 115 millimetres (with border, plate mark)
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Width: 55 millimetres (image, plate mark)
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Width: 95 millimetres (with border, plate mark)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See Comment of 1948,0315.10.61 for information about the series.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0822.479