Emblems of mortality representing, in upwards of fifty cuts [after Holbein, by John Bewick] death seizing all ranks and degrees of people ; imitated from a painting in the cemetery of the Dominican Church at Basil in Switzerland ; with an apostrophe to each, translated from the Latin and French. [Ed. with preface by John S. Hawkins] Intended as well for the information of the curious, as the instruction and entertainment of youth ; to which is prefixed a copious preface, containing an historical account of the above, and other paintings on this subject, now or lately existing in divers parts of Europe
Emblems of mortality representing, in upwards of fifty cuts [after Holbein, by John Bewick] death seizing all ranks and degrees of people ; imitated from a painting in the cemetery of the Dominican Church at Basil in Switzerland ; with an apostrophe to each, translated from the Latin and French. [Ed. with preface by John S. Hawkins] Intended as well for the information of the curious, as the instruction and entertainment of youth ; to which is prefixed a copious preface, containing an historical account of the above, and other paintings on this subject, now or lately existing in divers parts of Europe
Hans Holbein, John Sidney Hawkins, Switzerland) Dominican Church (Basil, Thomas Bewick, John Bewick
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