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, and Valvasor copies Birckmann.
Hollar ignores Birckmann's additions and decorates the castle in renaissance style, and Deuchar copies Hollar. This is an example (the only one?) of Deuchar copying Hollar instead of Birckmann.

Various Artists

Holbein 1538: Empress
Holbein (1538)
Vogtherr 1544: Empress
Vogtherr (1544)
Birckmann 1555: Empress
Birckmann (1555)
Scharffenberg 1576: Empress
Scharffenberg (1576)
Kieser 1617: Empress
Kieser (1617)
Hollar 1651: Empress
Hollar (1651)
Valvasor 1682: Empress
Valvasor (1682)
Mechel 1780: Empress
Mechel (1780)
Deuchar 1788: Empress
Deuchar (1788)
Bewick 1789: Empress
Bewick (1789)
Anderson 1810: Empress
Anderson (1810)
Bechstein 1831: Empress
Bechstein (1831)
Schlotthauer 1832: Empress
Schlotthauer (1832)
Douce 1833: Empress
Douce (1833)
Wildridge 1887: Empress
Wildridge (1887)

Cardinal Queen Up to Holbein's great dance of death