The dance of death: the child. Woodcut by Hans Holbein the younger.

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1 print : woodcut ; image 6.6 x 4.9 cm

Homo natus de muliere, breui viuens tempore, repletur multis miseriis, qui quasi flos egreditur, & conteritur, & fugit uelut umbra. 10B XIIII. Omnis homo ueniens grauida mulieris ab aluo, nascitur ad uariis tempora plena malis. Flos cito marcescens ueluti decedit, & ille sic perit, & tanquà corporis umbra fugit.

A.S. Warthin, The physician of the dance of death; a historical study of the evolution of the dance of death mythus in art, New York 1931, pp. 34-56

W.L. Gundersheimer, The dance of death by Hans Holbein the younger, New York 1971, pp. vii-xiii

Wellcome Collection 29607i