Imagines Mortis (Images of Death)

c. 1526; published 1545

Hans Lützelburger after Hans Holbein the Younger

Associated Names
Hans Lützelburger

Artist, German, active 1517-1526

Jean Frellon

Publisher, French, died 1570

François Frellon

Publisher, French, died 1546

Hans Holbein the Younger

Artist After, German, 1497/1498 - 1543

Media Options

Skip thumbnail navigation Back to thumbnail navigation
This object’s media is free and in the public domain. Read our full Open Access policy for images.

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bound volume with 44 woodcut illustrations including 1 title vignette, 1 initial, 41 in-text illustrations, and 1 illustration before the epilogue

  • Credit Line

    Gift of John B. Davidson in honor of Andrew Robison

  • Dimensions

    book: 13.8 × 9.7 × 1.3 cm (5 7/16 × 3 13/16 × 1/2 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2017.110.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein, no. 99


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Philip Hofer (bookplate). Frances Hofer (bookplate). Louis and Anne Marie Davidson (bookplate). John B. Davidson (bookplate) (Chicago); gift to NGA, 2017.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2022

  • The Renaissance in the North: New Prints and Perspectives, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2022, (exhibited open to the page spread with "The Count" and "The Old Man").

Bibliography

1949

  • Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts, ca. 1400-1700. Vol. XIV A. Roosendaal, 1988: no. 99.

Inscriptions

by later hand on first free endpaper in graphite: (underlined) (Hollbein). Imagines martis. / Lyon, 1545 / Lb. II / 8191 E. L.: on facing page in graphite underlined: F4 [not deciphered]


You may be interested in

Loading Results