Graaf en gravin en de Dood, Rudolph Meyer, 1650

Title(s)

Graaf en gravin en de Dood
Graf und Græffin (title on object)
De Dodendans (series title)

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-2002-327

Catalogue reference

• Hollstein German 187, 20
• Hollstein German 256

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 2228
• collector's mark: Lugt 2233

Description

Graaf en gravin in vertrek, beiden van achteren vastgegrepen door de Dood als skelet.

Artist

• print maker: Rudolph Meyer
• print maker: Conrad Meyer
• after design by: Rudolph Meyer
• publisher: Johann Jakob Bodmer

Dating

1650

Material

• paper

Technique

etching

Measurements

height 129 mm × width 90 mm

What

• dance of Death; Death together with one or more human beings
• personifications of Death; 'Morte' (Ripa)

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the F.G. Waller-Fonds

Acquisition

purchase 21-May-2001

Copyright

Public domain

• P. Mertens to Johannes Meyer der Ältere, Dl. 27, p. 111, cat.nr. 187, 20
• Johannes Meyer der Jüngere to Johann Reinhard Mühl, Dl. 28, p. 82, cat.nr. 256
• Keuze uit de aanwinsten : zeventiende-eeuwse prenten, p. 362-363, afb. 14a-14d