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Hans Holbein the Younger (after)
The Abbess 1538
woodcut
6.4 × 4.8 cm (block) 14.8 × 10.1 cm (sheet)
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1961
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The Abbess
1538
from Les Simulachres et historiees faces de la mort series, 1538
Medium
woodcut
Measurements
6.4 × 4.8 cm (block) 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 99-15 (vol. XIVa, p. 202); Woltmann 125; Pass. vol. III 362-373
Inscription
printed in ink above image u.l.-u.r.: Laudaui magis mortuos quam / viuentes.
printed in ink above image u.c.: ECCLE. IIII
printed in ink below image l.l.-l.r.: I'ay touſiours les mortz plue loué / Que les uiſz,eſquelz mal abonde, / Toutesfoys la Mort ma noué / Au ranc de ceulx qui ſont au monde.
inscribed in pencil l.l.: Lyon 1538
inscribed in pen and brown ink l.l.: (...illeg.) / (...illeg.)
stamped in ink l.l.: LAL (not in Lugt: Lionel Lindsay)
Accession Number
950B-5
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
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Subjects (general)
Allegory and Symbols Another Work Human Figures
Subjects (specific)
abbesses Death (allegorical character) deaths grief hourglasses memento mori nuns skeletons (animal components)
Movements
Renaissance