De arts en de Dood, Wenceslaus Hollar, after Hans Holbein (II), c. 1680

Title(s)

De arts en de Dood
Dodendans (series title)

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-OB-11.170

Catalogue reference

• New Hollstein German (Hollar) 1143-2(4)
  Remark: zonder omlijsting
• Pennington 249-2(4)
  Remark: zonder omlijsting
• Hollstein German 99-26
  Remark: Holbein, kopie

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 240

Description

De Dood overhandigt de arts een urinaal met urine van de oude man naast hem. Op de tafel van de arts staat een zandloper.

Artist

• print maker: Wenceslaus Hollar (mentioned on object)
• after print by: Hans Holbein (II) (mentioned on object)

Place

Antwerp

Dating

c. 1680

Material

• paper

Technique

etching

Measurements

height 75 mm × width 55 mm

What

• dance of Death; Death together with one or more human beings
• physician, doctor
• urinal (and basket)
• hourglass

Acquisition

transfer 1816

Copyright

Public domain

• Wenceslaus Hollar, Giulia Bartrum, Simon Turner, dl. IV, p. 1143, cat.nr. 174
• Hans Holbein the younger (continued), p. 202, cat.nr. 99
• A descriptive catalogue of the etched work of Wenceslaus Hollar 1607-1677, p. 33, cat.nr. 249