The dance of Death
By: by Hans Holbein ; with an introductory note by Austin Dobson.
Contributors: Lützelburger, Hans, 1495?-1526.; Corrozet, Gilles, 1510-1526.; Vauzelles, Jean de.
Publisher: Scott-Thaw Co.
Published: 1903
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 104
Subjects: Holbein, Hans, 1497-1543
Other titles: Dance of Death.; Simulachres & historiees faces de la mort.; Simulachres et historiees faces de la mort.
Notes: With facsim. t.p. of original ed.: Les simulachres & historiees faces de la mort, avtant elegammēt pourtraictes, que artificiellement imaginées. A Lyon, Soubz l'escu de Coloigne, MDXXXVIII.
Copies of 41 woodcuts supposed to have been executed from Holbein's designs by Hans Lützelburger and first published Lyons, 1538. Appended are 8 supplementary cuts added to later editions. Accompanying each cut is a related passage of Scripture in Latin, with a quatrain giving its equivalent rendering in French. The quatrains have been attributed to Jean de Vauzelles or to Gilles Corrozet.