David Deuchar

PREFACE.

EXPLANATIONS OF THE SUBJECTS OF THE TRIUMPH OF DEATH , BY HANS HOLBEIN. PLATE I. FRONTISPIECE.

Mors Sceptra ligonebus Æquat.

LE TRIOMPHE
DE LA MORT

GravÉ d’aprÉs les Dessins originaux de

Jean Holbein

par
David Deuchar
1786

Deuchar fecit

THE
DANCES OF DEATH,
THROUGH
THE VARIOUS STAGES OF HUMAN LIFE:
WHEREIN
THE CAPRICIOUSNESS OF THAT TYRANT
IS EXHIBITED
IN FORTY-SIX COPPER PLATES;
DONE FROM
The Original Designs,
WHICH
WERE CUT IN WOOD, AND AFTERWARDS PAINTED,

BY JOHN HOLBEIN,

IN THE TOWN HOUSE OF BASIL.

TO WHICH ARE PREFIXED,

Descriptions of each Plate in French and English, with the Scripture Text from which the Designs were taken.

ETCHED BY D. DEUCHAR, F.A.S.

London:
PRINTED BY W. SMITH AND CO. KING STREET, SEVEN DIALS,
FOR JOHN SCOTT, NO. 447, STRAND; & THOMAS OSTELL, NO. 3, AVE MARIA LANE.
1803.