Qui congregat thesauros lingua mendacit, vanus & excors est, & impingetur ad laqueos mortis, Proverb. 21 [graphic] / H.B. i. [center plate] ; W.H. [center plate] ; Ab. a Diepenbecke inu. [border] ; W. Hollar fecit [border].

Qui congregat thesauros lingua mendacit, vanus & excors est, & impingetur ad laqueos mortis, Proverb. 21 [graphic] / H.B. i. [center plate] ; W.H. [center plate] ; Ab. a Diepenbecke inu. [border] ; W. Hollar fecit [border].

Pennington item title: Merchant
Pennington set title: Dance of death

[Antwerp?] : [s.n.], [1651?]

1 print : etching ; exterior platemark 115 x 92 mm

paper

Center plate: Two merchants on a quay with corded bales and barrels. Death (represented by a skeleton) drags one of them away by the hair from the money he is counting.--Adapted from Pennington.

Border: The same architectural frame as Pennington 233A and 233B, but the caryatids are now a bearded and winged man with an hour-glass and a scythe on left, and on right a woman holding in her hands a serpent with its tail in its mouth. At top is a draped coffin with a candle on each side; and at bottom a skeleton lying head to left with a spade and pick.--Adapted from Pennington.

This print was made with two separate plates - one for the central scene and one for the decorative border.

Plates for this set were originally made and published in 1651, in Antwerp (see introduction to Pennington 233-266 for a history of this set of prints).

Pennington, R. Descriptive catalogue of the etched work of Wenceslaus Hollar, 254 (center plate), 233C (border)

Belgium -- Antwerp.

ART Box H737.5 no.23 pt.5q (size L)

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