The Nun, from the Dance of Death

Etcher Wenceslaus Hollar Bohemian
After Hans Holbein the Younger German

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A young nun is kneeling before an altar in a bedroom but she looks around at a young man seated on the bed playing a lute. Death reaches toward the altar to extinguish the candle flame.

The Nun, from the Dance of Death, Wenceslaus Hollar (Bohemian, Prague 1607–1677 London), Etching; second state of four

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