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].

Date:
1803
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: 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]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    39 \ PLATE XXXVIII.—THE HIGHWAY ROBBER. This ill-fated man attacks in a forest, a country girl returning from the fair, and is endeavouring to take from her what she is bringing from thence ; but, fortunately for the poor woman, Death comes to her assistance; and laying hold of the Robber, prevents, probably only by a few days, the hangman, who would have made him bear on a scaffold the punishment due to his crimes. Quasi agnus lasciviens & ignorans, nescit quod ad vincula stultus trahatur. Prov. vii. 22. PLANCHE XXXVIII —LE VOLEUR DE GRAND CHEMIN. C e malheureux attaque dans une foret une paysanne qui revient de la foire, & veut lui enlever ce quelle en rapporte; mais heureusement pour la pauvre femme, la Mort vient a son se- cours, & en se saisissant du Voleur elle ne pre vient peut-etre que de quelques jours le bourreau, qui lui auroit fait porter1 sur un £chaffaut la peine de ses crimes.