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Death as a skeleton holding a scythe riding a chariot drawn by two bulls to right; dead or dying figures on his path including a king and a pope and bishop; in background a burning city; from a series of six engravings.

Inscription Content: Signed with monogram on the tablet at lower centre, numbered there 5 and lettered 'NASCENTES MORIMUR FINIS QZ AB ORIGINE PENDET/ LONGIUS AUT PROPIUS MORS SUA QUENOZ MANET'.

Engraving made by Georg Pencz, Germany, c.1539.

The mother lying asleep on a bed, on a wall at the back set in clouds an illustration of her dream with a monster spitting fire onto a city set on the shore of a lake or sea. Designed for Marinus Barletius, 'Des Allerstreytparsten Fürsten und Herren Georgen... Skanderbeg Ritterliche Thaten', Augsburg: Steiner, 1533. Taken here from Vincenz Steinmeyer, 'Newe künstliche ... Figuren', Frankfurt 1620.

Woodcut made by Jörg Breu II, Germany, 1533, and published by Vincent Steinmeyer in Frankfurt, Germany, 1620.

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Witches and warlocks engaging in various rituals, including flying on rams, preparing potions; at lower centre witches being burnt.

Woodcut made by Hans Schäufelein, Printed by Johann Otmar and published by Johann Rynmann, Augsburg, Germany, 1511.

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Woodcut made by by Michael Wolgemut and Wilhelm Pleydenwurff, Germany, 1493.

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► One from more than 1,000 woodcuts designed by the talented German artists Michael Wolgemut and Wilhelm Pleydenwurff, with the assistance of their studio apprentices, among whom was the young Albrecht Dürer- for the Hartmann Schedel, Liber Chronicarum (Nuremberg Chronicle) (1493), XCIIv.

Satire on ill-matched love.

Woodcut formerly attributed to Sebald Beham, after Jacob Lucius, Germany, 1545-1600.

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