The Dance of Death Exhibited in Elegant Engravings on Wood with a Dissertation on the Several Representations of that Subject but More Particularly on Those Ascribed to Macaber and Hans Holbein

Personification of Death, and other modes of representing it among the Ancients.--Same subject during the Middle Ages.-- Erroneous notions respecting Death.--Monumental absurdit...

Macaber not a German or any other poet, but a nonentity.-- Corruption and confusion respecting this word.--Etymological errors concerning it.--How connected with the Dance.--Tro...

List of editions of the Macaber Dance.--Printed Horæ that contain it.--Manuscript Horæ.--Other Manuscripts in which it occurs.--Various articles with letter-press, not being sin...

Hans Holbein's connection with the Dance of Death.--A dance of peasants at Basle.--Lyons edition of the Dance of Death, 1538.--Doubts as to any prior edition.--Dedication to the...

Holbein's Bible cuts.--Examination of the claim of Hans Lutzenberger as to the design or execution of the Lyons engravings of the Dance of Death.--Other works by him 94

List of several editions of the Lyons work on the Dance of Death with the mark of Lutzenberger.--Copies of them on wood.--Copies on copper by anonymous artists.--By Wenceslaus H...

Page 7, line 25, for _Boistuan_ read _Boistuau_. 7, ... 26, for _Prodigeuses_ read _Prodigieuses_. 28, ... 14, read _in Holland_, &c. 32, ... 23, for _Lamorensi_ read _Zamorensi...

_Personification of Death, and other modes of representing it among the Ancients.--Same subject during the Middle Ages.--Erroneous notions respecting Death.--Monumental absurdit...

The subject immediately before us was very often represented, not only on the walls, but in the windows of many churches, in the cloisters of monasteries, and even on bridges, e...

_Macaber not a German or any other poet, but a nonentity.--Corruption and confusion respecting this word.--Etymological errors concerning it.--How connected with the Dance.--Tro...

We are next to examine this subject in relation to its existence in our own country. On the authority of the work ascribed to Walter de Mapes, already noticed in p. 24, it is no...

_List of editions of the Macaber Dance.--Printed Horæ that contain it.--Manuscript Horæ.--Other Manuscripts in which it occurs.--Various articles with letter-press, not being si...

_Hans Holbein's connexion with the Dance of Death.--A dance of peasants at Basle.--Lyons edition of the Dance of Death, 1538.--Doubts as to any prior edition.--Dedication to the...

At this time the celebrated designs for the illustration of the Old Testament, usually denominated Holbein's Bible, made their appearance, with the following title, "Historiarum...

_List of several editions of the Lyons work on the Dance of Death, with the mark of Lutzenberger.--Copies of them on wood.--Copies on copper by anonymous artists.--By Wenceslaus...

It may be necessary in the next place to make some further enquiry respecting the connection that Holbein is supposed to have had _at any time_ with the subject of the Dance of...

Having thus disposed of the two most ancient and important works on the subject in question, others of a similar nature, but with designs altogether different, and introduced in...

I. Six small circles on a single sheet, engraved on copper by Israel Van Meckenen. 1. Christ sitting on his cross. 2. Three skulls on a table. 3. Death and the Pope. 4. Death ri...

To offer any thing in the shape of a perfect list of these, would be to attempt an impossibility, and therefore such only as have come under the author's immediate inspection ar...

It is very seldom that in this numerous and amusing class of books a subject relating to Death, either moral or of a ludicrous nature does not occur. It may be sufficient to not...

An ancient engraving, in the manner of Israel Van Meckenen. Death is playing at chess with a king, who is alarmed at an impending check-mate. A pope, cardinal, bishop, and other...

It is very well known that the use of initial or capital letters, especially with figures of any kind, is not coeval with the invention of printing. It was some time before they...

At fo. 1. of "F. Marco de Guadalajara y Xavier, Memorable expulsion y justissimo destierro de los Moriscos de Espana, Pamplona, 1613, 4to." there is an initial E, finely drawn a...

In one of the wardrobe accounts of Henry VIII. a picture at Westminster is thus described: "Item, a table with the picture of a woman playing upon a lute, and an old manne holdi...

The first of these subjects, as connected with the Macaber Dance, has been already introduced at p. 31-33; what is now added will not, it is presumed, be thought unworthy of not...

To enumerate even a moiety of these mistakes would almost occupy a separate volume, but it may be as well to notice some of them which are to be found in works of common occurre...