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The Abbot
(c. 1525)
from Les Simulachres et historiées faces de la mort avtant elegamment pourtraictes que artifiellement imaginées (Images and Illustrated Aspects of Death, both Elegantly Portrayed and Cunningly Devised [Holbein’s Dance of Death] by Jean de Vauzelles and Gilles Corrozet, published by Melchior and Caspar Trechsel for J. and F. Frellon, Lyon, 1538
Medium
woodcut
Measurements
6.5 × 4.8 cm (image) 14.8 × 10.1 cm (sheet)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1961
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
Catalogue/s Raisonné
Hollstein 99.14
Inscription
printed in ink above image u.l.-u.r.: Ipſe morietur. Quia nō habuit diſci= / pliname,& in multitudine ſtultitiæ / fuæ decipietur.
printed in ink above image u.c.: PROVER. V
printed in ink below image l.l-l.r.: Il mourra, Car il n'a receu / En foy aulcune diſcipline, / Et au nombre fera deceu / De folie qui le domine. / D iii
Accession Number
950A-5
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest
Subjects (general)
Allegory and Symbols Another Work Human Figures
Subjects (specific)
abbots Death (allegorical character) deaths memento mori mitres (high headgear) reproductive prints skeletons (animal components) text (layout feature)
Movements
Renaissance