Das Alt weyb

Holbein, Hans, the younger (1497/1498-1543)

Lützelburger, Hans (died before 1526)


Item type:
book (printed)
Date of creation:
1523-1526
Height:
6.5 cm  (2 9/16 in.)
Width:
4.8 cm  (1 7/8 in.)
Technique / Medium:
woodcut
Place of creation:
Basel (Schweiz)

Additional titles

The old woman

    Item location

  • Künstmuseum Basel
    Öffentliche Kunstsammlung, Kupferstichkabinett[Museum inv. no.: X 2186, 1-41]Facsimile from first print Lyon 1538 at the Library of Congress, Washington, Rosenwald copy.

Description

On the left: Death with two hammers playing a xylophone hanging on a strap around his neck.

Iconclass

31F3
dance of Death; Death together with one or more human beings

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Xylophone [3099]

RIdIM images


Bibliographic references

Gundersheimer, Werner L. Hans Holbein the Younger, The dance of Death: A complete facsimile of the original 1538 edition of Les simulachres et historiées faces de la mort, Lyon 1538 (Toronto and London: Dover, 1971) 40 and 130.

Buch, Stephanie. "Die 'Bilder des Todes' und der Triumph des Lebens", Hans Holbein d.J.: Die Jahre in Basel, ed. by Christian Müller and Stephan Kemperdick (München: Prestel, 2006) 117-123.

Van der Meer, John Henry. Musikinstrumente von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart (München: Prestel, 1983) 44.

Notes

Research Project Hochschule Luzern-Musik, Switzerland (Antonio Baldassarre, Brigitte Bachmann-Geiser, Dorothea Baumann)

RIdIM record id

4409