Accession number
PML 15544.13
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: 105 x 95 mm; mount: 134 x 108 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
Numbered 13 in upper right corner of plate; numbered "Pl. 24" in lower left corner of mount.
Provenance
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Badin, 12 May 1906.
Summary
Print shows Death at right, standing with a lantern suspended between his thighs which he beats with a pair of bones. At left, the bearded hermit looks on, clad in a long hooded robe and holding a staff and a rosary.
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