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La danse des morts.

Accession number
PML 15544
Published
[Place of production not identified (France?)] : [producer not identified], [17--?]
Credit line
Purchased in 1907.
Notes
Engravings from an unidentified edition; they appear to be reversed images based on Chovin's engravings after designs by Matthieu Merian (cf. PML 2120 published in Basle in 1774).
Engraved on paper, later cut out and mounted on vellum backing, hand-colored and with fabric incorporated into the design (découpé), further inlaid into bound leaves of vellum.
13 of 43 plates numbered in pencil in lower left corner: 3, 27, 40, 39, 22, 38, 19, 33, 30, 34, 23, 16, 24.
Description
13 dressed prints : ill. ; 25 cm
Provenance
J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from L. Badin, 1907.
Binding
18th-century brown blind-tooled leather with remainders of clasps; repaired by Duprez Lahey. Title on spine: La danse des morts.
Classification
Department