Blanc, Charles, 1813-1882 · New York : Hurd and Houghton ; Cambridge [Mass.] : Riverside Press · leaf 323
in genrepictures and better possesses itself of the reader. Itis remarkable that the greater number of the persons 296 WOOD ENGRAVING. surprised by Death are calmly resigned to their fate.The captain defends himself from habit; the beg-ging friar, the prince robed in ermine, the abbess andthe… … adam cultivating the ground. the peddler, from holbeins dance of death. A striking feature in this series of engraved com-positions is the malicious, ironical, often facetiouscharacter stamped upon Death. Here he strikeswith his wand the tambourine before the weddingprocession, there he takes the…
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