Vado Mori, by Steinhauer (1744)

Vado Mori, by Steinhauer (1744)

The image represents a coat of arms and in its center a child inside a coffin. Two dead people appear on each side of the coat of arms and although visible gender differences appear between them, the child lacks any gender trait. The dead woman on the right is represented with flesh which could be an allusion to beauty and the open belly can be an allusion to death in childbirth or putrefaction.

Steinhauer, Antonius (Unknown)

Vado Mori Das ist: Bereitschaft zum Tod, Oder Der Weg alles Fleisches, Durch eine ordentliche Todten-Procession (Vado Mori That is: readiness for death, or the path of all flesh, through a proper procession of the dead), by Steinhauer, Antonius (1744). Printer: Wagner, Martin. Straßburg; Augsburg; Oberammergau: Wagner. 
URN: urn:nbn:de:gbv:3:1-433639-p0004-9
Found in the library at the University Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt, (Germany)
http://digitale.bibliothek.uni-halle.de/vd18/content/pageview/5728418

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Also found on the "The Dance of Death" webpage:
http://www.dodedans.com/Exhibit/Image.php?lang=e&navn=vado-mori

Archived in:
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1744

Illustration.
Dimensions: Unknown