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  • A man sits and paints a picture of the exiled Adam and Eve; his wife suckles a baby; representing the thirtieth year of life. Engraving by Conrad Meyer, 16--.
  • The dance of death at Basel: death and the executioner. Lithograph by G. Danzer after H. Hess.
  • The dance of death at Basel: death and the cook. Lithograph by G. Danzer after H. Hess.
  • Miravan opening the tomb of his ancestors in search of treasure, discovers that the treasure is not gold but repose. Mezzotint by V. Green after Joseph Wright of Derby, 1772.
  • Tomb effigy of William Bradbridge, his wife Alice, and their fourteen children. Brass rubbing.
  • Tomb effigy of William Bradbridge, his wife Alice, and their fourteen children. Brass rubbing.
  • Dance of death: death and the fool. Etching and letterpress attributed to J.-A. Chovin, 1720-1776, after the Basel dance of death.
  • A prayer for the liberation from the plague with images of the wounds of Christ, the Instruments of the Passion and of interceding saints. Etching.
  • A physician examining the chest of a thin, perhaps tuberculous, boy, in the presence of the latter's mother. Lithograph by K. Kollwitz, 1920.