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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Description V Dorice Ia .

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Princeps induetur moerore.Et quiescere faciam siuperbia po

tentium.

EZECHIE. VII

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ermined Cape of the Prince, whose fate is thus Sealed, while a pΟor beggar Woman, not idreaming that princes are subieci to the Common lot, Stili Continues to supplicate alms. The lrobes of the Prince are designed in the simple manner peculiar to Holbein. Who never adopted the floridtreaiment of drapery by means of those richly-varied crinkles and angular soldings which Albert Durer, Lucas Cranach, and other Contempora' artisis of the German school adopted. It will be observe liliat the hou glass, with iis sands run oui, filis a nichein the palaCe to er, instead of a statue. l

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Ipse morietur. 4ris no habuit dii, Ilinam,re in maritudine stultitiae

uae decipietur. P R O V E R. U

De solle qui te domine. D sit

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ProverbS V. 23.

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Laudaul magis mortuos quam

viventes.

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HOLBE IN S DANCE OF DE ATH

Ecce appropinquat licto

Tu uas au choeur dire tes heures Priant Dieu potir toy,& ton proche. M ais it fauit ores que tu metires.

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accessories of the other devices, tend to mahe this series the most remarhable among the many analogous productions of the artisis os the fifteenth and fix-teenth centurieS.

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is est homo qui uiuet,& non videbit

mortem,eruer anima suam de manu

insericPSAL. L X x x v I I I

Qui est celluy tant soli grand homine, Qui pu.sse uiure fans mouriret