print
- Museum number
- Q,4.88
- Title
- Series: Dance of Death
- Description
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Death's coat of arms; a fashionably dressed gentleman on left and his wife on the right, supporting a shield on which is a death's head, complete with helm, mantle and a crest of an hour-glass with two arm-bones holding up part of a skull; in architectural border, with two bearded old men as caryatides, each holding a large orb surmounted by a cross and string of jester's bells; at top a skull and hourglass and two small boys, and at bottom a skull with cross-bones and two small boys each with an hourglass; 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: 77 millimetres (image, plate mark)
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Height: 111 millimetres (with border)
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Width: 55 millimetres (image, plate mark)
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Width: 90 millimetres (with border)
- $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
- 1753
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- Q,4.88