id:			110586
accession number:	1929.151
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1929.151
updated:		2025-09-09 11:31:22.125000
Dance of Death:  The Abbot, c. 1526. Hans Holbein the Younger (German, active England and Switzerland, 1497/98–1543). Woodcut; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund 1929.151
title:				Dance of Death:  The Abbot
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creation date:			c. 1526
creation date earliest:		1521
creation date latest:		1531
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creditline:			Dudley P. Allen Fund
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culture:	Germany
technique:	woodcut
department:	Prints
collection:	PR - Woodcut
type:		Print
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catalogue raisonne: Passavant vol.3.365.14
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CREATORS
* Hans Holbein the Younger (German, active England and Switzerland, 1497/98–1543)  - artist
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
	title:		16th Century Prints from the Museum Collection
	opening date:   1935-12-04T05:00:00
	16th Century Prints from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 4-29, 1935).
	title:		Exhibition of Prints by the Little Masters: Prints form the Museum Collection
	opening date:   1938-03-23T05:00:00
	Exhibition of Prints by the Little Masters: Prints form the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 23-April 24, 1938).
	title:		Inaugural Exhibition of the New Print Gallery - Prints from the Museum Collection
	opening date:   1938-08-10T04:00:00
	Inaugural Exhibition of the New Print Gallery - Prints from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 10-November 13, 1938).
	title:		16th Century German Woodcuts
	opening date:   1939-01-24T05:00:00
	16th Century German Woodcuts. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 24-February 26, 1939).
	title:		The Silver Jubilee Exhibition
	opening date:   1941-06-23T04:00:00
	The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941).
	title:		Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition
	opening date:   1958-03-03T05:00:00
	Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (March 3, 1958-October 11, 1959).
	title:		Albrecht Dürer - 500th Anniversary
	opening date:   1971-02-19T05:00:00
	Albrecht Dürer - 500th Anniversary. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 19-March 28, 1971).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
	"Woodcuts: Dance of Death Series by Hans Holbein the Younger." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art16, no. 8 (October 1929): 141-151
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 141, 144; Reproduced: p. 151
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25137237
	Weyden, Goossen van der, Sven Van Dorst, Katharina van Cauteren, P. Allegaert, Janick Appelmans, Till Borchert, and Helen Simpson. Crazy About Dymphna: The Story of a Girl Who Drove a Medieval City Mad. Veurne : Hannibal : The Phoebus Foundation, 2020.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: P. 108-109
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IMAGES
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print:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1929.151/1929.151_print.jpg
full:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1929.151/1929.151_full.tif