The dances of death, through the various stages of human life. Wherein the capriciousness of that tyrant is exhibited: in forty-six copperplates / [by D. Deuchar], done from the original designs ... by John Holbein in the Town-House at Basil. To which is prefixed, descriptions of each plate in French and English. With the Scripture text from which the designs were taken. [Ed. by James Bonar].

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1803
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The dances of death, through the various stages of human life. Wherein the capriciousness of that tyrant is exhibited: in forty-six copperplates / [by D. Deuchar], done from the original designs ... by John Holbein in the Town-House at Basil. To which is prefixed, descriptions of each plate in French and English. With the Scripture text from which the designs were taken. [Ed. by James Bonar]. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Dance of Death. n 82047568

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London : W. Smith and Co. for J. Scott & T. Ostell, 1803.

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2 unnumbered leaves, 47 pages : engr. frontispiece & plates., illustrations, portraits ; (4to)

Notes

The descriptions of the plates are by Mechel. cf. Dance of death. The dance of death, with a dissertation on the several representations of that subject, by Francis Douce, 1833, p. 136
Added t.-p., engraved: Le triomphe de la mort ... 1786.

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