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Hans Lützelburger after Hans Holbein the Younger

Imagines Mortis (Images of Death), c. 1526; published 1545

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Medium

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

Dimensions

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

Credit Line

Gift of John B. Davidson in honor of Andrew Robison

Catalogue Raisonné

Hollstein, no. 99

Accession Number

2017.110.1

Artists / Makers

Hans Lützelburger (artist) German, active 1517-1526

Hans Holbein the Younger (artist after) German, 1497/1498 - 1543

Jean Frellon (publisher) French, died 1570

François Frellon (publisher) French, died 1546

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Inscription

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]

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Davidson, John B., Mr.

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.