Quid prodest homini, si universum mundum lucretur,animæ autem suæ detrimentum patiatur?Mat.xvi.
XLII
THE DRUNKARDS
Ne inebriemini vino, in quo est luxuria.Ephes.v.
XLIII
THE IDEOT FOOL
Quasi agnus lasciviens, et ignorans, nescit quodad vincula stultus trahatur.Prover.vii.
XLIV
THE ROBBER
Domine, vim patior.Isaiæxxxviii.
XLV
THE BLIND MAN
Cæcus cæcum ducit: et ambo in foveam cadunt.Matt.xv.
XLVI
THE WAGGONER
Corruit in curru suo.1 Chron.xxii.
XLVII
THE BEGGAR
Miser ego homo! quis me liberabit de corporemortis hujus?Rom.vii.
XLVIII
THE LAST JUDGMENT
Memorare novissima, et in æternum non peccabis.Eccle.vii.
XLIX
ALLEGORICAL ESCUTCHEON OF DEATH
These are the marks erroneously given to Holbein,
And these the marks which really belong to him,
A.Æmylius, Geo. his verses,84.Alciatus, his emblems the earliest work of the kind,180.Aldegrever, his Dance of Death,160.Almanac, a Swiss one, with a Dance of Death,76,209.Alphabets, several curious,100,214,217.Amman, Jost, a Dance of Death by him,41.Ars moriendi, some account of the last edition of it,173.Athyr, “Stamm-und Stechbuchlein,” a rare and singular book of emblems,180.B.Baldinucci, a mistake by him corrected,235.Basle, destruction of its celebrated painting of the Dance of Death,39.engravings of it,41.Beauclerc, Lady Diana, her ballad of Leonora,210.Bechstein, Ludwig, his edition of the Lyons’ wood-cuts,136.Beham, Barthol., his Dance of Death,190.Bernard, le petit, his fine wood-cuts to the Old Testament,173.Berne almanac, a Dance of Death in one of them,154.Bock, Hans, not the painter of the Basle Dance of Death,39.Bodenehr, Maurice, a Dance of Death by him,165.“Boetius de consolatione,” a figure of Death in an old edition of it,171.Bonaparte, Napoleon, a Dance of Death relating to him,167.Books in which a Dance of Death is occasionally introduced,168.Borbonius, Nicolas, his portrait,140.his verses,92,94,139.in England,140.Bosman, Arent, a singular old Dutch legend relating to him,183.Bosse, a curious engraving by him,196.Boxgrove church in Sussex, sculpture in,226.Brant, Sebastian, his stultifera navis,170.Bromiard, John De, his “Summa predicantium,” a fine frontispiece to it,183.Buno, Conrad, a book of emblems by him,181.Burnet, Bishop, his ambiguous account of a Dance of Death at Basle,79,138.C.Calendrier des Bergers,170.Callot, drawings by him of a Dance of Death in the collection of Sir Tho. Lawrence,223.Camus, M. de, a ludicrous mistake by him,169.Catz’s emblems,182.Cavallero determinado,174.Centre de l’amour, a singular book of emblems,182.Chertablon, “Maniere de se bien preparer à la mort,”177.“Chevalier de la tour,” a singular print from this curious romance,171.Chodowiecki, his engravings relating to the Dance of Death,153,207,208.Chorier, his “Antiquités de Vienne,”48.Cogeler, “Imagines elegantissimæ, &c.”173.Coleraine, I. Nixon, his Dance of Death on a fan,159.Colman’s “Death’s duell,”185.Compan, M. his mistake about a Dance of Death,237.Coppa, a poem ascribed to Virgil,3.Cossiers, John, a curious print after him,199.Coverdale’s Bible, with initials of a Dance of Death,217.Coxe’s travels in Switzerland, some account in them of M. Crozat’s drawings,134.Crozat, M. De, account of some supposed drawings by Holbein in his collection,134.D.Dagger, design for the sheath of one by Holbein,133.Dagley’s “Death’s doings,”157,210,224.Dance of Death, a pageant,5.Danish one,159.known to the ancients,12.one at Pompeii,13.the term sometimes improperly used,81.verses belonging to it,17.where sculptured and painted,17.Dance, Mr. the painter, his imitation of a subject in the Dance of Death in his portrait of Mr. Garrick,137.Dances of Death, with such text only as describes the subject,160.anonymous,161,162,163,164.at the following places,Amiens,47.Anneberg,44.Avignon,221.Basle,36.Berlin,48.Berne,45.Blois,47.Croydon,54.Dijon,35.Dresden,44.Erfurth,44.Fescamp,47.Hexham,53.Holland,49.Italy,49.Klingenthal,42.Leipsic,44.Lubeck,43.Lucerne,46.Minden,35.Nuremberg,45.Paris,14,33,35.Rouen,47.Salisbury,52.St. Paul’s,51,76.Spain,50.Strasburg,47.Tower of London,54.Vienne, in Dauphiné,48.Wortley Hall,53.Dancing in temples and churchyards,5,6.Daniel, Mr. an unique print of a Dance of Death in his possession,248.Danse aux aveugles,231.Death and the Lady,226.how personified by the Ancients,1.not in itself terrific,4.to Dr. Quackery,211.De Bry, prints by him,180,183,195.Dedication to the first edition of the Lyons wood-cuts,86.mistakes in it,87.De Gheyn, prints by him,198,205.De la Motte’s fables,183.Della Bella,162.De Murr, his mistake about the Dance of Death,235Dennecker, or De Necker, Jobst, Dances of Death by him,40,42,85,118.De Pas, Crispin, description of a singular engraving by him,196.Descamps, his mistake about the Dance of Death,235.Deuchar, David, the Scottish Worlidge, his etchings of the Dance of Death,135.Deutch, Nicolas Manuel, the painter of a Dance of Death at Berne,224.Devil’s ruff-shop,200.De Vos, Martin, print after him of the Devil’s ruff-shop,200.Diepenbecke, Abraham, designer of the borders to Hollar’s etchings of the Dance of Death,125.Dialogue of life and death, in “Dialogues of creatures moralized,”170.Dominotiers, venders of coloured prints for the common people,77.Drawings of the Dance of Death,222.Druræi Mors, an excellent Latin comedy,175.Dugdale, his Monasticon,129.his St. Paul’s,129.Durer, Albert, some prints by or after him described,188,189.E.Ear, the seat of memory among the Ancients,3.swearing by,3.Edwards, Mr. the bookseller, the possessor of Hollar’s etchings of the Dance of Death,128.Elizabeth, her prayer-book with a Dance of Death,147,247.Emblems and fables relating to the Dance of Death,179.Engravings on wood, the earliest impressions of them not always the best,85,90.commendations of them in books printed in France, Germany, and Italy,97.Errors of miscellaneous writers on the Dance of Death,236.of travellers concerning it,233.of writers on painting and engraving concerning it,234.Evelyn, Mr. his mistake concerning the Dance of Death,235.F.Fables relating to the Dance of Death,179.Faut mourir, le,26.Felibien, his mistake about the Dance of Death,235.Figeac, Champollion, his account of a Macaber Dance,238.Fleischmann, Counsellor, of Strasburg, drawings of a Dance of Death in his possession,134.Fontenai, Abbé, his mistake concerning the Dance of Death,236.Fool and Death in old moralities,177.Fournier, his mistake concerning the Dance of Death,237.Fox, John, “Book of Christian Prayers,” compiled by him,147.Francis I. an importer of fine artists into France,92.Francolin, a rare work by him described,217.Freidanck,171.Friderich’s emblems,180.Frontispieces connected with the Dance of Death, described,183.Fulbert’s vision of the dispute between the soul and the body,32.Fuseli, Mr. his opinion concerning the Dance of Death,83.Fyner, Conrad, his process or law-suit of Death.G.Gallitzin, Prince, some supposed drawings by Holbein of a Dance of Death in his possession,134.Gem, an ancient one, with a skeleton as the representative of Death,206.Gerard, Mark, some etchings of fables by him,179.Gesner’s Pandectæ, remarks on a passage in that work,84.Ghezzi, a figure of Death among his caricatures,206.Glarus, Franciscus à, his “Confusio disposita, &c.” noticed as a very singular work,177.Glass, painted, with a Dance of Death,227.Glissenti, his “Discorsi morali,”112.his “Morte inamorata,”246.Gobin le gay, a name of one of the shepherds in an old print of the Adoration,69.Gobin, Robert, his “loups ravissans,” remarkable for a Dance of Death,146.Goethe, a Dance of Death in one of his works,178,211.Gole, a mezzotinto by him of Death and the Miser,203.Goujet, his mistake about the Dance of Death at Basle,233.Graaf, Urs, a print by him, and his monogram described,189.Grandville, “Voyage pour l’eternité,”157.Gray, Rev. Robert, his mistake about the Dance of Death at Basle,233.Gringoire, Pierre, his “Heures de Notre Dame,”172.Grosthead, story from his “Manuel de Péché,”7.Guilleville, “Pelerin de la vie humaine,”175.H.Harding, an etching by him of “Death and the Doctor,”211.Hawes’s “Pastime of Pleasure,” two prints from it described,173.Heemskirk, Martin, a print by him described,193,199.Hegner, his life of Holbein,240.Heymans, Mynheer, a dedication to him,141.Historia della Morte, a poem so called,176.Holbein, a German, life of him by Hegner,240.ambiguity with respect to the paintings at Basle ascribed to him,81.dance of peasants by him,80.engravings by him with his name,95.his Bible prints,94.his connexion with the Dance of Death,78,138.his death, in 1554,144.his name not in the early editions of the Lyons wood-cuts,92.lives of him very defective,143.more particulars relating to him,143.not the painter of the Dance of Death at Basle,38,43,144.paints a Dance of Death at Whitehall,141.satirical painting of Erasmus by him,221.Hollar, his copies of the Dance of Death,125.Hopfer, David, his print of Death and the Devil,191.Horæ, manuscripts of this service book with the Macaber Dance,60.printed copies of it with the same, and some similar designs,72.Huber and Rust, their mistake concerning Holbein,236.I.Jacques, Maitre, his “le faut mourir,”26.Jansen, his mistake concerning the Dance of Death,236.Imitations of and from the Lyons wood-cuts,137.Initial letters with a Dance of Death,213,214,217.Innocent III. Pope, his work “de vilitate conditionis humanæ,”172.K.Karamsin, Nicolai, his account of a Dance of Death,44.Kauw, his drawing of a Dance of Death, at Berne,224.Kerver, Thielman, his editions of “Horæ,”174.Klauber, John Hugh, a painter of a Dance of Death at Basle,36,42.L.Langlois, an engraving by him described,198.Larvæ and lemures, confusion among the ancients as to their respective qualities,4.“Last drop,” an etching so intitled,211.a drawing of the same subject,224.Lavenberg calendar, prints by Chodowiecki in it,153.Lawrence, Sir Thomas, drawings by Callot of a Dance of Death in his possession,223.“Lawyer’s last circuit,” a caricature print,209.Le Blon, a circular print by him described,197.Le Comte, his mistake concerning the Dance of Death,235.Lubeck, a Dance of Death there,163.Lutzenberger, Hans, the engraver of the Lyons wood-cuts of the Dance of Death,98.alphabets by him,100.various prints by him,99.Luyken’s Emblems,177,178.Lydgate, his Verses to the Macaber Dance,29,52.Lyons, all the editions of the wood-cuts of the Dance of Death published there described,82,103.copies of them by Hollar,125.copies of them on copper,121.copies of them on wood,111.various imitations of some of them,137.Lyvijus, John, a print by him of two card players,197.M.Macaber, a word falsely applied as the name of a supposed German poet,28,34.its etymology discussed,30,34.Macaber Dance,13,28.copies or engravings of it as painted at Basle,40.destruction of the painting at Basle,39.manuscripts in which it is represented,72.not painted by Holbein,38.printed books, in which it is represented,55.representations of it at the following places:—Amiens,47.Anneberg,44.Basle,36.Berlin,48.Berne,45.Burgos,50.Croydon,54.Dijon,35.Dresden,44,76.Erfurth,44.Hexham,53.Holland,49.Klingenthal,42.Lubeck,43.Lucerne,46.Minden,35.Naples,49.Rouen,47.Salisbury,52.St. Paul’s,51,76.Strasburg,47.Tower of London,54.Vienne,48.Wortley Hall,53.Macarius Saint, painting of a legend relating to him, by Orgagna, at the Campo Santo,32,33.Malpé, M., his mistake concerning the Dance of Death,236.Mannichius,180.Manuel de Peché, by Grosthead,7.Mapes, Walter de, an allusion by him to a Dance of Death,24.vision of a dispute between the soul and the body, ascribed to him,33.Marks or monograms of engravers, their uncertainty,102.Marmi, Gio. Battista, his “Ritratte della Morte,”129.Mechel, Chretien de,132,208,214.Meckenen, Israel Van, a Dance of Death by him,160.Meisner, his “Sciographia Cosmica,”180.Melidæus, Jonas, a satirical work under this disguised name, intitled “Res mira,”184.Meyers, Rodolph, his Dance of Death,148.Meyssens, his mistake concerning the Dance of Death,234.Missal, an undescribed one, in the type of the psalter of 1457,213.Misson, the traveller, his mistake concerning the Dance of Death,233.Mitelli, Gio. Maria, a kind of Death’s Dance, by him,161.Moncrief, his “March of Intellect,” quoted for a print after Cruikshank,178.Montenaye, Georgette de, her emblems,179.“Mors,” an excellent Latin comedy, by William Drury,175.Mortimer, a sketch by him of Death seizing several persons,209.Mortilogus,171.N.Negro figure of Death,230.Newton’s Dances of Death,165.Nieuhoff, Piccard,130,140.Nuremberg Chronicle, a cut from it described,170.a story from it,6.O.Old Franks, a curious painting by him,204,221.Oliver, Isaac, his copy of a painting by Holbein, at Whitehall,145,221.Orgagna, Andrea, his painting at the Campo Santo,32.Ortulus Rosarum,170.Otho Vænius, a curious painting by him,204,222.Ottley, Mr. his opinion in favour of Holbein as the designer of the Lyons wood-cuts,88.proof impressions of the Lyons wood-cuts in his valuable collection,85.P.Palingenius, his “Zodiacus Vitæ,” a frontispiece to this work described,186.Panneels, William, a scholar of Rubens, mention of a painting by him,203.Papillon, his ludicrous mistakes noticed,110,114.Patin, Charles, a traveller, and a libeller of the English,79,138,237.Paulmy, Marquis de, his mistake concerning the Dance of Death,238.Paul’s St., mention of the Dance of Death formerly there,51,163.Peasants, a dance of, painted at Basle, by Holbein,80.Peignot, M. author of “Les Danses de Mort,” an interesting work,preface.his misconception relating to John Porey,248.Perriere, his “Morosophie,”179.Petrarch, his triumph of Death,175,207.his work “de remediis utriusque fortunæ,”175.Pfister, Albert, his “Tribunal Mortis,”168.Piccard, Nieuhoff,130,140.Piers Plowman, lines from,54.Porey, John, a mistake concerning him corrected,248.Potter, P. an allegorical engraving after him,199.Prints, single, relating to the Dance of Death, list of,188.Prior, Matthew, his lines on the Dance of Death,145.Psalter of 1457, a beautiful initial letter in it noticed,213.of Richard II., a manuscript in the British Museum,222.R.Rabbi Santo, a Jewish poet, about 1360,25.Ratdolt, a Venetian printer, not, as usually supposed, the inventor of initial or capital letters,213.Rembrandt, drawing of a Dance of Death by him,223.etching by him,195.René, of Anjou, painted a Dance of Death,221.Reperdius, Geo. an eminent painter at Lyons,93.Revelations, prints of the,175.Reusner, his emblems,179.Rive, Abbé, his bibliography of the Macaber Dance,75.Rivoire, his history of Amiens commended,47.Roderic, bishop of Zamora,17,32.Rolandini’s emblems,180.Rollenhagius’s emblems,182.Roll of the Dance of Death, 1597,163.Rowlandson’s Dance of Death,156,225,248.Rusting, Salomon Van, his Dance of Death,131.S.[monogram], some account of this monogram,115.its owner employed by Plantin, the famous printer at Antwerp,116.Salisbury missal, singular cut in one,172.Sallaerts, an artist supposed to have been employed by Plantin the celebrated printer,115,116.Sancta Clara, Abraham, a description of his “universal mirror of Death,”151.Sandrart, his notice of a work by Holbein at Whitehall,145.Schauffelin, Hans, a carving on wood by him described,226.Schellenberg, I. R. a Dance of Death by him,154.Schlotthaver, his edition of a Dance of Death,249.Silvius, or Sylvius, Antony, an artist at Antwerp, account of a monogram supposed to belong to him,115.Skeleton, use made of the human by the ancients,3.“Spectriana,” a modern French work, frontispiece to it described,187.Stelsius, his edition of a spurious copy of Holbein’s Bible cuts,97.Stettler, his drawings of the Macaber Dance of Death at Berne,224.“Stotzinger symbolum,” description of a cut so intitled,174.Stradanus, an engraving after him described,197.Susanna, a Latin play,18.Symeoni, “Imprese,”179.T.Tapestry at the Tower of London,227.“Theatrum Mortis,” a work with a Dance of Death described,129.Tiepolo, a clever etching by him described,197.Title-pages connected with the Dance of Death, list of,183.Tory, Geoffrey, Horæ printed by him described,172.Tower of London, tapestry formerly there of a Dance of Death,227.Trois mors et trois vifs,31,33,228.Turner, Col., a Dance of Death by him,207.Turnham Green, some account of chalk drawings of a Dance of Death on a wall there,210,224.Typotii symbola,180,182.U.Urs Graaf, his engravings noticed,243.V.Vænius, Otho, some of his works mentioned,182,204.Valckert, a clever etching by him described,201.Van Assen, a Dance of Death by him,158.Van Leyden, Lucas,189.Van Meckenen, Israel, his Dance of Death in circles,160.Van Sichem, his prints to the Bible,177.Van Venne, prints after him,157,182,199,209.Verses that accompany the Dance of Death,17.Von Menzel,207.“Voyage pour l’eternité,” a modern Dance of Death,157.W.Walpole, Mr. his mistake concerning the Dance of Death,236.Warton, Mr. his remarks on the Dance of Death,237.Weiss, Mr. author of some of the best lives in the “Biographie Universelle,” misled in his article “Macaber” by Champollion Figeac,249.Whitehall, fire at,140.painting of a Dance of Death there by Holbein,141.Wierix, John, some prints by him described,194,195.Williams, Miss, her mistake concerning the Dance of Death at Basle, in her Swiss tour,233.Wolschaten, Geeraerdt Van, a Dance of Death by him,130.Wood, engravings on, the first impressions of them not always the best,85.Wood, Mr. his mistake concerning the Dance of Death in his “View of Switzerland,”233.Y.“Youth’s Tragedy,” a moral drama, 1671,175.Z.Zani, Abbate, of opinion that Holbein had no concern in the Lyons wood-cuts of the Dance of Death,98,101,138.Zuinger, his account of paintings at Basle,139.