De Dood draagt een kind Vijf keer de Dood (serietitel), RP-P-OB-34.342, Stefano della Bella, between 1620 and 1664

Identification title(s): death bears a child. Five times death (series title). Object type: print object number: rp-p-ob-34. 342. Catalog reference: de vesme (della bella) 88-2(3). Jombert (della bella) 137-2. Inscriptions / marks: collector's mark, verso, stamped: lugt 240. Description: death walks as a skeleton with a baby in his arms. In the background a second skeleton and a cityscape. Manufacture. Manufacturer: printmaker: stefano della bella (mentioned on object). Dating: 1620 - 1664. Physical features: etching. Material: paper technique: etching. Dimensions: plate edge: h 185 mm × w 150 mmexplanationdrawn preliminary studies are kept in the ashmolean museum in oxford (inv. No. 790) and in the bibliothèque nationale in paris (vol. 3, no. 391). Subject: what: death as skeleton meeting between the (three) living and the (three) dead. Acquisition: transfer of management 1816. Date: between 1620 and 1664.