Homo natus de muliere, breui viuens tempore repletur multis miserus, qui quasi flos egreditur & conteritur & fugit velut vmbra, Iob 1 [graphic] / H.B. i. [center plate] ; W.H. [center plate] ; Ab. a Diepenbecke inu. [border] ; W. Hollar fecit 1651 [border].
1651
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Details
Title
Homo natus de muliere, breui viuens tempore repletur multis miserus, qui quasi flos egreditur & conteritur & fugit velut vmbra, Iob 1 [graphic] / H.B. i. [center plate] ; W.H. [center plate] ; Ab. a Diepenbecke inu. [border] ; W. Hollar fecit 1651 [border].
Variant title
Pennington item title: Child
Pennington set title: Dance of death
Pennington set title: Dance of death
Created/published
[Antwerp] : [s.n.], [1651]
Description
1 print : etching ; exterior platemark 116 x 93 mm
Associated name
Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607-1677, printmaker.
Diepenbeeck, Abraham van, 1596-1675, artist.
Holbein, Hans, 1497?-1543, artist.
Diepenbeeck, Abraham van, 1596-1675, artist.
Holbein, Hans, 1497?-1543, artist.
Material base
paper
Summary
Center plate: Death (represented by a skeleton) leads a small child out of a house where a woman is cooking at a fire, with another child behind her.--Adapted from Pennington.
Border: The same architectural frame as in Pennington 233A, but with Minerva as a caryatid on left and Hercules on right. At top is a skull with a triple crown and the crowns and headgear of popes, cardinals, emperors and peers on either side. At bottom is a skull and cross-bones with tools of industry on the left and weapons of war on right.--Adapted from Pennington.
Border: The same architectural frame as in Pennington 233A, but with Minerva as a caryatid on left and Hercules on right. At top is a skull with a triple crown and the crowns and headgear of popes, cardinals, emperors and peers on either side. At bottom is a skull and cross-bones with tools of industry on the left and weapons of war on right.--Adapted from Pennington.
Note
This print was made with two separate plates - one for the central scene and one for the decorative border.
Cited/described in
Pennington, R. Descriptive catalogue of the etched work of Wenceslaus Hollar, 261 (center plate), 233B (border)
Genre/form
Prints.
Emblems (allegorical pictures)
Emblems (allegorical pictures)
Place of creation/publication
Belgium -- Antwerp.
Item Details
Call number
ART Box H737.5 no.23 pt.6x (size L)
Folger accession
216659