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Description
English: Death and the Courtesan; deceptive copy after Sebald Beham (Pauli 1122). A naked woman kneeling on a bed in a luxurious interior. Death as an emaciated figure approaching her with an hourglass. Under the bed the dead lover, a sword in his right hand. Late impression.
Colour woodcut from two blocks, tone block in reddish brown
Date between 1522 and 1550
date QS:P571,+1550-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1522-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1550-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 390 millimetres
Width: 278 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1870,0625.948
Notes

The copy can be distinguished by the absence of the name Niclas Meldeman on the bedframe. Secondly, Death's left eye has a pupil drawn in, whereas the eye sockets are empty in the original. Thirdly, five nails on the ceiling directly below the borderline missing in the copy.

Two other states of the copy known: First state with line block only and third state with added Dürer monogram.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1870-0625-948
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