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

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1 print : woodcut ; image 6.6 x 4.9 cm

Spiritus meus attenuabitur, dies mei breuiabuntur, & folum mihi superest sepulchrum. 10 B XVII. Attenuata meis fugerunt robora membris, vitaq́; currentis fluminis instar abit. Quàm cito præteriit nunquà reuocabile tēpus, et reliquum tumbam nil nuhi præter erit. Tristia iam longæ pertæsus munera uitæ me precor ut iubeant numina summa mori. C 3.

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 29693i