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

Hans Holbein

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Lettering: Ipse morietur, quia non habuit disciplinam & in multitudine stultitiæ suæ decipietur. Proverb: 5.

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