Cardinal Queen

 
Empress  
 

The Empress

D eath is disguised as a lady-in-waiting, but is naked under the hood. Death leads the empress towards the waiting grave.

Variations: Birckmann adds a few buildings in the horizon. Hollar decorates the castle in renaissance style, and Deuchar copies Hollar. This is an example (the only one?) of Deuchar copying Hollar instead of Birckmann.

Holbein's Imagines Mortis: Empress
Les Simulachres (1538)
Vogtherr 1544: Empress
Vogtherr (1544)
Birckmann 1555: Empress
Birckmann (1555)
Scharffenberg 1578: Empress
Scharffenberg (1578)
Eberhard Kieser imaginibus: Empress
Eberhard Kieser (1617)
Hollar 1651: Empress
Hollar (1651)
Mechel 1780: Empress
Mechel (1780)
Deuchar 1788: Empress
Deuchar (1788)

Cardinal Queen Up to Holbein's great dance of death