The dance of death: Adam tills the soil. Woodcut by Hans Holbein the younger.

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1 print : woodcut ; image 6.5 x 4.9 cm

Maledictio. Maledicta terra in opere tuo, in laboribus comedes cunctis diebus vitæ tuæ, donec reuertaris & c. Gen. III. Sit maledicta tuo sterilis pro crimine tellus. Vita tibi multi plena laboris erit: vita tibi multi plena laboris erit: donec in exigua te Mors tellure reponet, quod fueras primū, tum quoq; puluis eris.

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 29623i