The dance of death : the full series of wood engravings reproduced in phototype from the proofs and original editions
A late nineteenth-century London facsimile by Bernard Quaritch of Hans Holbein's sixteenth-century woodcut series The Dance of Death, reproduced from the original proofs and editions and edited by Friedrich Lippmann. The pictures show Death as a skeleton confronting people of every rank, from emperor and pope to peasant and child, in plain black-and-white line work. A designer could take from them the compact vignette layout, the economy of cross-hatched line, and the device of a skeleton paired with a single human figure.
