print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1933,0317.1
- Description
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Allegory of Death. View of a 'diorama' created by the physician and collector Frederick Ruysch; the 'rock' is assembled from gallstones and kidneystones decorated with prepared body parts (arteries, nerves, long tissue, brain meninges etc.) and three foetal skeletons in melodramatic poses; one of the skeletons shown as weeping in a tissue and another holding a sickle; lettered A-X within composition indicating different parts of diorama; illustration to Frederick Ruysch' "Thesaurus Animalium" (Amsterdam: 1710). c.1710
Engraving and etching
- Production date
- 1710 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 387 millimetres
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Width: 333 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Thesaurus Animalium
- Acquisition date
- 1933
- Acquisition notes
- Provenance unrecorded
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1933,0317.1
