Sterbensspiegel, das ist, Sonnenklare Vorstellung menschlicher Nichtigkeit durch alle Ständ und Geschlechter : vermitlest 60. dienstlicher Kupferblätteren, lehrzeicher Vberschrifften, und beweglicher zu vier stimmen aussgesetzter Todtengessängen
Sterbensspiegel is a 1650 German book printed in Zürich by Johann Jacob Bodmer, with sixty copperplate engravings and songs, made by Rudolf Theodor Meyer, Conrad Meyer and Johann Georg Müller for a general readership. Its pictures are small black-and-white engravings where Death, shown as a skeleton, seizes people from every rank, including a bishop, a king and a young lord, and a designer might borrow their dramatic staging of skeletal figures interrupting ordinary courtly and domestic scenes.
