Book/Printed Material The dances of death, through the various stages of human life : wherein the capriciousness of that tyrant is exhibited in forty-six copper plates; done from the original designs, which were cut in wood, and afterwards painted
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- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Holbein, Hans - Deuchar, David - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1803
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- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Holbein, Hans - Deuchar, David - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1803
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Image 3 of The dances of death, through the various stages of human life : wherein … â RIFS3 Â THE GIFT OF 2 LESSING J ROSENWALD TO THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Holbein, Hans - Deuchar, David - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1803
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- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Holbein, Hans - Deuchar, David - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1803
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- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Holbein, Hans - Deuchar, David - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1803
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- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Holbein, Hans - Deuchar, David - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1803
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- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Holbein, Hans - Deuchar, David - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1803
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Image 8 of The dances of death, through the various stages of human life : wherein … THE DANCES OF DEATH _ THROUGH THE VARIOUS STAGES OF HUMAN LIFE WHEREIN THE CAPRICIOUSNESS OF THAT TYRANT IS EXHIBITED IN FORTYSIX COPPER PLATES DONE FROM 7 The riginal Designs WHICH A…
- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Holbein, Hans - Deuchar, David - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1803
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- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Holbein, Hans - Deuchar, David - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1803
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- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Holbein, Hans - Deuchar, David - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1803
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- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Holbein, Hans - Deuchar, David - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1803
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Image 12 of The dances of death, through the various stages of human life : wherein … PREFACE oJ OHN or HANS HOLBEIN was born at Basil in 1498 and died at London of the plague in 1554 aged 56 This ad mirable Painter was instructed in the art…
- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Holbein, Hans - Deuchar, David - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1803
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Image 13 of The dances of death, through the various stages of human life : wherein … 5 i 5 i im f j i comm mp mmr 4 PREFACE In the town of Basil he painted a picture of our Saviourâs Sufferings as well as a Dance of…
- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Holbein, Hans - Deuchar, David - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1803
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- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Holbein, Hans - Deuchar, David - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1803
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- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Holbein, Hans - Deuchar, David - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1803
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Image 16 of The dances of death, through the various stages of human life : wherein … 7 EXPLANATIONS THE SUBJECTS OF THE TRIUMPH OF DEATH BY HANS HOLBEIN PLATE IâFRONTISPIECE Ax the side of a stone table placed vertically Holbem ap pears behind a curtain which Death opens…
- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Holbein, Hans - Deuchar, David - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1803
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Image 17 of The dances of death, through the various stages of human life : wherein … 2 PLANCHE 1IâLE FRONTISPIECE a A cOTE dâune table de pierre posÃe verticalement Holbein paroit derriÃre un rideau que la Mort lui ouvre pour mettres ous ses yeux le grand Spectacle des…
- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Holbein, Hans - Deuchar, David - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1803
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- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Holbein, Hans - Deuchar, David - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1803
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- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Holbein, Hans - Deuchar, David - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1803
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Image 20 of The dances of death, through the various stages of human life : wherein … PLATE IIâSIN Hovsnix has begun the scenes of life by that which had such influence on all the rest The Mother of the human race holds in her right hand the fatal…
- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Holbein, Hans - Deuchar, David - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1803
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Image 21 of The dances of death, through the various stages of human life : wherein … PLATE IIIâPUNISHMENT Our first parents driven out by the Angel are flying from the terrestrial Paradise preceded by Death who is playing on the fiddle and shews by dancing the joy he…
- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Holbein, Hans - Deuchar, David - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1803
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- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Holbein, Hans - Deuchar, David - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1803
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Image 23 of The dances of death, through the various stages of human life : wherein …
- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Holbein, Hans - Deuchar, David - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1803
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Image 24 of The dances of death, through the various stages of human life : wherein …
- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Holbein, Hans - Deuchar, David - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1803
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Image 25 of The dances of death, through the various stages of human life : wherein … abortus comedes domet veverhris GE B in  Mat m0icTA Teryh in ge 2 tuo ite tha is dechus v cnet
- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Holbein, Hans - Deuchar, David - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1803
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Image 26 of The dances of death, through the various stages of human life : wherein … J mri PLATE IVâCONDEMNATION TO LABOUR Houser to mark at once the species of labour which is the lot of man and that which falls to the share of the woman re…
- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Holbein, Hans - Deuchar, David - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1803
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Image 27 of The dances of death, through the various stages of human life : wherein … PLATE VâTHE POPE CROWNING AN EMPEROR A CARDINAL and three bishopsare assisting at the ceremony Death is there also under the figure of two skeletons one of which is dressed in cardinalâsrobes…
- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Holbein, Hans - Deuchar, David - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1803
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Image 28 of The dances of death, through the various stages of human life : wherein … MoriaturSacerides mag iis J Os UE XX LE quis copdit 171 cies areal alle 7 Psal108
- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Holbein, Hans - Deuchar, David - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1803
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Image 29 of The dances of death, through the various stages of human life : wherein …
- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Holbein, Hans - Deuchar, David - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1803
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Image 30 of The dances of death, through the various stages of human life : wherein …
- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Holbein, Hans - Deuchar, David - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1803
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Image 31 of The dances of death, through the various stages of human life : wherein … Vie gute yustifientes empiri m Pr mune ribs A nestle sty a ab 0 BSATAEV
- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Holbein, Hans - Deuchar, David - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1803
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Image 32 of The dances of death, through the various stages of human life : wherein … _y rea rama nsecy rd PLATE VIâTHE CARDINAL A MESSENGER has just presented to him on his knees the bull that constitutes him a cardinal Death seizes this moment to make his…
- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Holbein, Hans - Deuchar, David - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1803
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Image 33 of The dances of death, through the various stages of human life : wherein … 8 PLATE VIâTHE ELECTOR IE prince as he is coming out of his palace with his cottr tiers is accosted by a poor woman who implores his help for herself and the…
- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Holbein, Hans - Deuchar, David - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1803
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- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Holbein, Hans - Deuchar, David - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1803
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- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Holbein, Hans - Deuchar, David - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1803
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- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Holbein, Hans - Deuchar, David - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1803
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- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Holbein, Hans - Deuchar, David - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1803
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Image 38 of The dances of death, through the various stages of human life : wherein … 9 â PLATE VIIILTHE BISHOP Win an air of tranquillity and resignation this worthy Pas tor follows Death who is leading him away laughing and danc ing whilst some shepherds forgetting their…
- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Holbein, Hans - Deuchar, David - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1803
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Image 39 of The dances of death, through the various stages of human life : wherein … 10 PLATE IXâTHE âCANON Ar the moment he is entering the church Death accosts him and shewing him an hourglass run down announces that his hour is come He appears to be…
- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Holbein, Hans - Deuchar, David - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1803
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- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Holbein, Hans - Deuchar, David - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1803
About this Item
Title
- The dances of death, through the various stages of human life : wherein the capriciousness of that tyrant is exhibited in forty-six copper plates; done from the original designs, which were cut in wood, and afterwards painted
Names
- Holbein, Hans, 1497-1543, illustrator.
- Deuchar, David, 1743-1808, engraver.
- Levis, Howard Coppuck, former owner.
- Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
Created / Published
- London : Printed by W. Smith for J. Scott, 1803.
Notes
- - Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1954
- - LC copy has book-plate of Howard C. Levis.
- - LAC ecr 2019-09-10 update (1 card)
- - LAC ddw 2022-04-20 update (1 card)
Medium
- 47 p. : plates, port. ; 22 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- N7720.H6 A45
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Library of Congress Control Number
- 49039319
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Contributor
- Deuchar, David
- Holbein, Hans
- Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Levis, Howard Coppuck