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Saint Christopher. Woodcut by or after S. Beham.

Men and women bathing in the fountain of youth, next to a bathhouse with a roof terrace where people disport themselves. Engraving, 16--, after S. Beham.

Saint Stephen, Saint Ladislas with Saint Emeric and Saint Mary (the Blessed Virgin) with the Christ Child above. Reproduction of a woocut by S. Beham.

The fountain of youth. Woodcut by H. Beham, ca. 1536.

Saint Sebaldus. Engraving after S. Beham, 1521.

Three skulls are piled up to form a pyramidal composition on which a dead child partly lies. Heliogravure after S. Beham, 1529.

The suicide of Cleopatra: the asp wriggles around Cleopatra's left arm and is about to bite her in the breast. Heliogravure after S. Beham.

A winged woman holding a palm branch in her right hand and a spinning wheel with a small man perched on top in her left, walks past a globe, while a ship with billowing sails is passing by in the background; representing fortune. Heliogravure after S. Beham, 1541.

Saint Jerome. Engraving attributed to Monogrammist AC after S. Beham.

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Three skulls are piled up to form a pyramidal composition on which a dead child partly lies. Heliogravure after S. Beham, 1529.

Saint Jerome. Engraving attributed to Monogrammist AC after S. Beham.

The suicide of Cleopatra: the asp wriggles around Cleopatra's left arm and is about to bite her in the breast. Heliogravure after S. Beham.

The fountain of youth. Woodcut by H. Beham, ca. 1536.

Saint Sebaldus. Engraving after S. Beham, 1521.