The dance of death at Basel; skeletons playing the pipe and the drum to accompany the dance. Lithograph by Danzer after H. Hess.

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The dance of death at Basel; skeletons playing the pipe and the drum to accompany the dance. Lithograph by Danzer after H. Hess. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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These lithographs are derived from the dance of death frescos painted on the walls of the churchyard of the Dominican cloister in Basel. Executed between 1437 and 1441, these frescos were often altered and were finally removed in 1805 when damages could not be restored. Some of the wall fragments are preserved in the history museum in Basel

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Basel : Hasler & C.ie, éditeurs lithogs

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1 print : lithograph, printed in grey and beige ; image 16.8 x 13.5 cm

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Oh Mensch betracht und nicht veracht, hie die Figur, all Creatur. Die nimmt der Tod früh und spot, gleichwie die Blum im Feld zergoht. Bears number top right : No. 1.

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S. Cosacchi, Makabertanz; Der Totentanz in Kunst, Poesie und Brauchtum des Mittelalters, Meisenheim am Glan 1965, pp. 759-764, pp. 816-817

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Wellcome Collection 30305i

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