Hans Holbein's celebrated Dance of death : illustrated by a series of photo-lithographic facsimiles from the copy of the first edition now in the British Museum : accompanied by explanatory descriptions and a consise history of the origin and subsequ

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And ali mans race was mortat made.

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usse eum DordyNVS D E V S de Paraadiso Voluptatis o operaretur rerram de qua sumptus est. G B N E S I S II r

Potir inure au labeur de ses mains: Alors la More te uini falsir, Et consequeminent to mains. .

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Maledicta ima in opere tuo n laboribus com des cunctis diebus Vitae tuae, donec reuerta ris &GGENESIS III

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whence he was taken.-Genesis iii. 23. ΤΗΕ EXPULSION. x-N this subjeci the expression os abjeci terror and ulter humiliation delinealed in the figures of

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Va vae me lainstantibus in terra. APO CALYPSi S V I I TCuncta in quibus spiraculum Vira' est,mortua sent. GENESIS VII

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errand of destruction, exhibiis the peculiarenergy of the pencit of Η olbein more distinctly than any similar features in thesour preCeding CutS, and the Variety of instrumentsupon whiCh the various sheletons are Celebrating the preparation for the Dance has suggested the titie of Deatli's Orchestra, by whicli the device is generallyknorin, and whicli suggested to M. Kestner his Work on the musical instruments represented in the Various Dances of Death. Though among themost repulsive, this is at the fame time one of themost grim ly grand of the whole series of designS. Death, secure of his prey, holds his coliri in rampant triumph : the enero of the trombone-player, thesmirhing satisfaction of the performer on the hurdy- gurdy, and the stantic glee of the beater of the ketiledrum, are grimly grand, and horribly tantastic.

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in . .

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Pope is summoned to his doom, by a lurhing sheleton,' at the very moment of his greatest exercise of SOVel re igni while in the act of crowning a kneeling Emperor, Who reverently kisses his Mot. In this figure the artist has exhibited the pious humility of his favourite hero, the Emperor Maximilian, in Contrast With the arrogant assumption of the Pope. Ane ly created Cardinal stanus at one fide, and the designer, allo ing his pencit to be influenced by the spirit of the Reformation, has represented the Bullissued on his nomination as heing helit over his head by a demon, While a mocking sheleton stantis belli nil him, wearing a Cardinat's hat ; and another impsupporis the draperies of the Papat throne.

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Dispone domui tuae,morieris enim tu,& non vives. ISAIAE xxx VI

De la massion dispostras Comme de ton bien transitoire, Car la ou mort reposero, Seront les chariore de ta gloste