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

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A boy seated next to an altar dedicated to Death leans on a skull. Etching by Petrus de Jode. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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1 print : etching ; platemark 11.9 x 18.2 cm

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

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

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Wellcome Collection 34583i

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