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The Nun, from the Dance of Death

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.

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

1651

Etching; second state of four

7.5 x 5.5 cm

51.501.2126

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