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Dance of death

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  • The dance of death. Etching by R. Dagley, 182-.
  • The dance of death: the canon. Woodcut by Hans Holbein the younger.
  • The dance of death at Basel: death and the duke. Lithograph by Danzer after H. Hess.
  • The dance of death: the advocate. Woodcut by Hans Holbein the younger.
  • The dance of death: death and the prostitute. Etching by D.-N. Chodowiecki, 1791, after himself.
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Catalogue

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    The dance of death at Basel: death and the abbess. Lithograph by G. Danzer after H. Hess.

    | Reference: 30437i
    • Books

    The dance of death / Hans Holbein ; with a commentary by Ulinka Rublack.

    Holbein, Hans, 1497?-1543 | Date: 2016
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    The dance of death: the schoolmaster. Coloured aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1816.

    Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827. | Date: 1816 | Reference: 31966i
    Part of: English dance of death, from the designs of Thomas Rowlandson, with metrical illustrations, by the author of "Dr Syntax".
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    La danse macabre de La Chaise-Dieu / par Claudie et Pierre Boissé ; présentation par Pierre-Roger Gaussin ; photographies, Roger Choplain et Roland Maston.

    Boissé, Claudie. | Date: [1977?]
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    The dance of death: the creation. Woodcut by Hans Holbein the younger.

    Holbein, Hans, 1497?-1543. | Reference: 29621i
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