Buikdienaren, Conrad Meyer, after Rudolph Meyer, 1650

Title(s)

Buikdienaren
Bauchdiener (title on object)
De Dodendans (series title)

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-2002-358

Catalogue reference

• Hollstein German 187, 50
• Hollstein German 288

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 2228
• collector's mark: Lugt 2233
• mark: ‘D ij’

Description

Monsters kleden mensen uit in de hel. In de achtergrond wordt een mensenmassa in boten geladen.

Artist

• print maker: Conrad Meyer (mentioned on object)
• after design by: Rudolph Meyer
• publisher: Johann Jakob Bodmer

Dating

1650

Material

• paper

Technique

etching

Measurements

height 142 mm × width 106 mm

What

• hell represented as landscape
• stripping, undressing someone else
• dance of Death; Death together with one or more human beings

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, 50
• Johannes Meyer der Jüngere to Johann Reinhard Mühl, Dl. 28, p. 82, cat.nr. 288
• Keuze uit de aanwinsten : zeventiende-eeuwse prenten, p. 362-363, afb. 14a-14d