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

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1 print : woodcut ; image 6.5 x 4.8 cm

Ecce appropinquat hora. Mat. XXVI. Tu petis ecce chorũ pompa comitante frequẽti, mox age dic horas uoce precante tuas. Nam te fata uocant, illa morieris in hora quæ tui fert tristem non reuocanda diem.

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 29585i