A boy seated next to an altar dedicated to Death leans on a skull. Etching by Petrus de Jode.

1 print : etching ; platemark 11.9 x 18.2 cm

Vita quid est hominis? flos, umbraq<ue>, fumus, arista illa malis longa est, illa bonis breuis est. Hodie mihi, cras tibi.

Tarnya Cooper, Refashioning death: vanitas and memento mori prints from northern Europe 1514-c.1640 (exhibition catalogue, University College, London), London 1997, no. 36

Wellcome Collection 34583i