A woman with a crutch, a man in chains and a man falling on a sword; allegory of suffering and the different forms of death. Engraving by P. Galle, c. 1563?.

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[1563]
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26273i
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A woman with a crutch, a man in chains and a man falling on a sword; allegory of suffering and the different forms of death. Engraving by P. Galle, c. 1563?. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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[Antwerp] : Philipp Galle, [1563]

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1 print : line engraving ; platemark 18.5 x 23.9 cm

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Continuò subeunt incerta pericula mille,/ Pauperies ditem involuit, rigidæqúe catastæ:/ Hic perit amne, cadit ferro, flamma interit ille./ Quisq; tamen vitæ producere quærimus umbram. ... Lettering continues: "De maux un monde enontre nous deuore:/ L'un s'appourist, l'autre enchaisné se voit,/ Tel par eau, glaiue, ou feu la mort recoit,/ Et toutesfois chascun veut vivre encore." Bears number: V

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Wellcome Collection 26273i

Notes

One of a series of six engravings on the infirmities and sufferings of mankind (frame nos. 7805-7810)

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