Oct 02, 2002 - Sale 1944

Sale 1944 - Lot 143

Price Realized: $ 518
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
(HOLBEIN, HANS.) Bewick, Thomas and John. Emblems of Mortality; representing . . . Death seizing all Ranks and Degrees of People; imitated from a Painting in the Cemetery of the Dominican Church at Basil, in Switzerland.<> Woodcut frontispiece and 51 text illustrations by Thomas and John Bewick after Holbein. [2], xxviii, 51, [1] pages. 12mo, later 19th-century brown calf with red morocco lettering piece; scattered foxing and minor marginal soiling; uncut. London: T. Hodgson, 1789

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"These are the figures of the Dance of Death by Holbein, modernized by Bewick"--Praz, page 326. Hugo 35.<