The dance of death: the warlord. Woodcut by Hans Holbein the younger.

1 print : woodcut ; image ca. 6.5 x 4.8 cm

Quis est homo qui vivet, & non videbit mortem, eruet animam suam de manu inferi. Psal. LXXXVIII. Quis tam grandis homo, tam forti pectore vivit , Cui maneat semper nescia vita necis ? Quis vitare potest, quod deiicit omnia, lethum, Eripiens animam mortis ab ense suam?

A.S. Warthin, The physician of the dance of death; a historical study of the evolution of the dance of death mythus in art, New York 1931, pp. 34-56

W.L. Gundersheimer, The dance of death by Hans Holbein the younger, New York 1971, pp. vii-xiii

Wellcome Collection 43474i