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Engraved on copper.
Not much is known about Salomon van Rusting, except that he had used to be an army surgeon.
Rusting was evidently interested in religion and a great part of the book and the 30 copperplates deal with Death throughout the Bible: Cadavers with long hair resembling feathers are jumping around the Tree of Wisdom, accompanying Noah's Ark with trumpets, dancing around Lot's wife in front of Sodom and Gomorrah, attacking Pharaoh and his soldiers in the Red Sea and so on. By thus placing the dance of death in a Biblical context, Rusting has anticipated Tobias Weis' »Sceptra Mortis, ein Biblischer Todtentanz« by almost two centuries.
Good condition. Extremely rare. Recent hand colour. Text to verso. Tiny marginal tear.
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