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Artist
- Name:
- Rethel, Alfred
- Dates:
- 1816-1859
- Country:
- Germany
Illustration
- Subject:
- Narratives
- Technique:
- Woodcut
- Engraver:
- Jungtow, Richard Julius
- Format:
- Landscape (wider)
- Source:
- The Getty Research Institute, The Internet Archive
Book
- Title:
- Alfred Rethel; 16 Zeichnungen und Entwürfe
- Author(s):
- Friedrich, Walther
- Publisher:
- Mainz: Verlag von J. Scholtz, 1907
Description
The second woodcut of Rethel’s Dance of Death shows Death traveling on horseback along a country road, toward a walled city whose cathedral rises in the distance, as does the smoke from chimneys hinting at the progress of industrial transformations. He wears his hat, a coat, boots, carries a scythe slung over his shoulder, and has a pair of scales hanging from his little finger. Two women field-workers hurry away at a crossroads as they see him drawing near.
The title reads in the original German: Der Tod reitet zur Stadt.
This series of plates was engraved under the supervision of Hugo Bürkner.
Keywords: 1900s, 20th century, death, eerie, horse, riding, traveling, Yet another dance of death
