. The Dances of death, through the various stages of human life : wherein the capriciousness of that tyrant is exhibited: in forty-six copper-plates . nded with a garlandof flowers, the other lets fly a butterfly, whilst a third is amusinghimself with making soap bubbles. What these allegories meauis easily understood. PLANCHE I. — LE FRONTISPIECE. A. COTE dune table de pierre posee verticalement, Holbeinparoit derriere un rideau que la Mort lui ouvre, pour mettre sousses yeux le grand Spectacle des Scenes de la Vie humaine quil vadessiner. Ce qui est encore designe par un amas dattributs de l
. The Dances of death, through the various stages of human life : wherein the capriciousness of that tyrant is exhibited: in forty-six copper-plates . nded with a garlandof flowers, the other lets fly a butterfly, whilst a third is amusinghimself with making soap bubbles. What these allegories meauis easily understood. PLANCHE I. — LE FRONTISPIECE. A. COTE dune table de pierre posee verticalement, Holbeinparoit derriere un rideau que la Mort lui ouvre, pour mettre sousses yeux le grand Spectacle des Scenes de la Vie humaine quil vadessiner. Ce qui est encore designe par un amas dattributs de lagrandeur, des dignites, des richesses, darts, de sciences, entre-meles de tetes de morts, et que la Mort elle-meme foule a sespieds. On lit au bas cette epigraphe tiree de Lucain :— Mors sceptra ligonibus cequat. La Mort confond le sceptre ^ la leche,Cette table est surmontee dun medaillon avec le portrait deHolbein. Deux Genies soutiennent ce medaillon; Iun Ientouredune guirlande de fleurs, & Iautre laisse echapper un papillon^tandis quun troisieme samuse a faire des bulles de savon. Onsent assez ce que signifient ces deux pjsrtATrM- Q///// ////(//.f^/ /.fn7/ f/ f/fii. \ />•////,/■■;tf i// //}/: PLATE 11.— SIN. Holbein has begun these scenes of life by that which had such,influence on all the rest. The Mother of the human race holdsin her right hand the fatal apple^ which she has just receivedfrom the serpent with a young mans head; and Adam, at thesame time, is plucking another, enticed by the solicitations ofthe too credulous Eve, who shews hitn the one she has received. Quia audisti vocem uxoris tuae, et comedisti de ligno, ex quopraeceperam tibi, Ne comederes, &c. Gen. iii. ^7. PLANCHE II. — LE PECHE, XTOLBEiN a commence ces scenes de la vie par celle qui eut tantdinfluence sur tontes les autres. La Mere du genre humain,tient dans sa main droite, la pomme fatale quelle vient de re-cevoir du serpent a tete de jeune homme, 8c Adam en cuei
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