Robber Beggar

 
Blind Man  
 

The Blind Man

Basel's dance of death. Blind Man
Basel's dance of death: Blind Man

D eath appears to lead the blind man carefully along the path. But where are they going?

Variations: Birckmann places the hourglass in the background behind the man, removes the big tree and adds some smaller trees in the background. Deuchar also removes the big tree and replaces it with a smaller one in the background. Deuchar gives the hourglass wings and lets it fly.
Bewick and Anderson lets Death run cheerfully away with the his back towards the reader.

Scharffenberg combines the picture with Basel's dance of death (picture to the right) and lets Death cut the string to the blind mans little guide dog.

Holbein's Simolachri de la morte: Blind Man
Simolachri de la morte (1549)
Birckmann 1555: Blind Man
Birckmann (1555)
Scharffenberg 1578: Blind Man
Scharffenberg (1578)
Eberhard Kieser imaginibus: Blind Man
Eberhard Kieser (1617)
Mechel 1780: Blind Man
Mechel (1780)
Bewick 1789: Blind Man
Bewick (1789)
Deuchar 1788: Blind Man
Deuchar (1788)
Anderson 1810: Blind Man
Anderson 1810
Bechstein 1831: Blind Man
Bechstein (1831)
Schlotthauer 1832: Blind Man
Schlotthauer (1832)

Robber Beggar Up to Holbein's great dance of death