The Old Man. Death, depicted as a skeleton playing a musical instrument, accompanies an old man to his grave. Facsimile of an engraving, belonging to the series "The Dance of Death" by Hans Holbein the Younger, in "Les Simulachres et Histoires facees de la Mort", 1538. "Vie Militaire et Religieuse au Moyen Age et a l'Epoque de la Renaissance". Paris, 1877.

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The Old Man.

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