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The dance of death: the child. Etching by Wenceslaus Hollar after Hans Holbein the younger.
Wellcome Collection

The dance of death: the child. Etching by Wenceslaus Hollar after Hans Holbein the younger.

Hans Holbein

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Wellcome Collection

Lettering: Homo natus de muliere, breui viuens tempore repletur multis miseriis: qui quasi flos egreditur & conteritur & fugit velut umbra. Job 1

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