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The Dance of Death (Classic Reprint)

By Hans Holbein

The Dance of Death (Classic Reprint) Drama

The Dance of Death (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Dance of Death<br/><br/>From the date of the editio princeps it might be supposed that the designs were executed at or about 1 5 3 8 Â the year of its publication. But The Artist. This is not the case; and there is good evi dence that they were not only designed but actuallv cut on the wood some eleven years before the book itself was published. There are, in fact, several sets of impressions in the British Museum, the Berlin Museum, the Basle Museum, the Imperial Library at Paris, and the Grand Ducal Cabinet at Carlsruhe, all of which correspond with each other, and are believed to be engraver's proofs from the original blocks. These, which include every cut in the edition of 15 38, except The Astrologer, would prove little of themselves as to the date of execution. But. Luckily, there exists in the Cabinet at Berlin a set of coarse enlarged drawings in Indian ink, on brownish paper, of twenty-three of the series. These are in circular form; and were apparently intended as sketches for glass painting. That they are copied from the woodcuts is demonstrable, first, because they are not reversed as they would have been if they were the originals; and, secondly, because one of them, No. 36 (the repeats the conjoined H. L. On the bed, which initials are held to be the mono gram of the woodcutter, and not to be part of the original design. The Berlin drawings must therefore have been executed subsequently to the woodcuts; and as one of them, that representing the Emperor, is dated 1 we get a date before which both the woodcuts.
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Number of Pages:
114
Release Date:
2017-10-31
Publication Date:
2017-10-31
Publisher:
Forgotten Books
Languages:
Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:
0260046523
Weight:
308 g
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