Death tramples on three female allegorical figures representing sensual pleasures. Etching by Hieronymus Wierix.

  • Wierix, Jeronimus, 1553-1619.
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Death holds an hourglass in his left hand and a scythe in his right. The woman on the left (numbered 1) plays a violin and has a theatrical mask, representing "concupiscentia carnis"; the woman on the right (numbered 2) holds a flowering plant, representing "concupiscentia oculorum"; and the woman in the centre (numbered 3) holds a duck and a mirror, representing "superbia vitæ"

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[Antwerp] : Hieronymus Wierix

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1 print : etching ; image 9.8 x 7 cm

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Omne quod est in mundo,1. concupiscentia carnis est, et 2. concupiscentia oculorum, et 3. superbia vitæ. 1. Ioan. 2.

References note

Tarnya Cooper, Refashioning death: vanitas and memento mori prints from northern Europe 1514-c.1640 (exhibition catalogue, University College London), London 1997, no. 1
Hollstein's Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, 1450-1700, vol. LXVII, The Wierix Family: part VIII, compiled by Zsuzsanna van Ruyven-Zeman, Rotterdam 2004, no. 1839
L. Alvin, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre des trois frères, Jean, Jérôme & Antoine Wierix, Bruxelles 1866, no. 1184

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Wellcome Collection 34683i

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