Accession number
PML 15544.1
Published
[S.l. : s.n., 17--?]
Credit line
Purchased in 1906.
Notes
One of a set of 13 plates bound as a collection (see PML 15544).
Engraving from an unidentified edition; appears to be a reversed image based on Chovin's engraving after a design 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 a leaf of vellum bound into an album (brown blind-stamped leather with remainders of clasps, 25 cm).
Engraving from an unidentified edition; appears to be a reversed image based on Chovin's engraving after a design 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 a leaf of vellum bound into an album (brown blind-stamped leather with remainders of clasps, 25 cm).
Description
1 dressed print : engraving, dressed, hand-colored ; image: 112 x 100 mm; mount: 140 x 115 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
Numbered 1 in upper right corner of plate; numbered "Pl. 3" in lower left corner of mount.
Provenance
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Badin, 12 May 1906.
Summary
Print shows death Death and the pope facing right, with Death leading the pope by the hand. Death wears a garland of leaves and a skull hangs in front of his pelvis, secured with cord around his waist, which he appears to beat with a bone like a drum. The pope wears his robes of office and his triple crown and carries a double cross, and an indulgence and a pair of bones lie at his feet in the foreground.
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