Death's coat of arms published 1651

RCIN 801906

Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-77)

Description

A fashionably dressed gentleman on l. with wife on r. support shield on which - a death's head, complete with helm,mantle & crest of hour-glass with 2 arm-bones holding up part of skull. Plate to Dance of Death.Border A:2 plates. 1st state
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Creator(s)

Search the collection Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-77)
(etcher)

After
Search the collection Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/8-1543)
(designer)

After
Search the collection Abraham van Dipenbeeck ('s-Hertogenbosch 1596 - Antwerp 1675)
(designer)
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General Subject Prints
Object type(s)
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prints
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Genealogy and Heraldry
Heraldry
Coats of arms

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