Dead woman in Richard Day A Booke of Christian Prayers, by Daye (printer) (1578)

Dead woman in Richard Day A Booke of Christian Prayers, by Daye (printer) (1578)

Death approaching a baronnesse. Notice how the clearly female corpse at the bottom of the page mirrors the generic skeleton at the top of the page. A similar image can be seen at Davidson, Clifford, Sophie Oosterwijk, John Lydgate, and EBSCOhost. John Lydgate, the Dance of Death, and Its Model, the French Danse Macabre. Leiden ; Brill, 2021, p. 40 image 21.

Daye, Iohn (printer)

Illustrations in page 133v. of A booke of Christian prayers, by Richard Day, London: Printed by Iohn Daye, dwellyng ouer Aldersgate, 1578.

Found in The University of Michigan Library website:
http://name.umdl.umich.edu/a19989.0001.001

1578

Engraving.
Dimensions: Unknown