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Hawkins, John Sidney, 1758-1842
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Emblems of mortality representing, in upwards of fifty cuts [after Holbein, by John Bewick] death seizing all ranks and degrees of people ; imitated from a painting in the cemetery of the Dominican Church at Basil in Switzerland ; with an apostrophe to each, translated from the Latin and French. [Ed. with preface by John S. Hawkins] Intended as well for the information of the curious, as the instruction and entertainment of youth ; to which is prefixed a copious preface, containing an historical account of the above, and other paintings on this subject, now or lately existing in divers parts of Europe.
Date: 1789
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Emblems of mortality : representing, in upwards of fifty cuts, Death seizing all ranks and degrees of people : imitated from a painting in the cemetery of the Dominican church at Basil, in Switzerland : with an apostrophe to each, translated from the Latin and French, intended as well for the information of the curious, as the instruction and entertainment of youth : to which is prefixed a copious preface, containing an historical account of the above, and other paintings on this subject, now or lately existing in divers parts of Europe / [Edited, with preface by John S. Hawkins].
Date: 1789