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

Title(s)

De monnik en de Dood
Dodendans (series title)

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-OB-11.167

Catalogue reference

• New Hollstein German (Hollar) 1140-2(4)
  Remark: zonder omlijsting
• Pennington 246-2(4)
  Remark: zonder omlijsting
• Hollstein German 99-23
  Remark: Holbein, kopie

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 240

Description

De Dood trekt de monnik aan zijn pij. Voor hem op de grond 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
• monk(s), friar(s)
• hourglass

Acquisition

transferred 1816

Copyright

Public domain

• Wenceslaus Hollar, Giulia Bartrum, Simon Turner, dl. IV, p. 173, cat.nr. 1140
• Hans Holbein the younger (continued), p. 202, cat.nr. 99
• A descriptive catalogue of the etched work of Wenceslaus Hollar 1607-1677, p. 32, cat.nr. 246