Object Image

The Abbess, from the Dance of Death

Death drags an Abbess from her convent; at left a nun throws her arms up in alarm

Credit: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1951

1651

Etching; second state of four

7.5 x 5.5 cm

51.501.2124

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