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The Child from "The Dance of Death", 1538, (1877). Death visits a child who is at home, with symptoms of being ill and at the moment when the family is cooking on a bonfire. Death takes the child by the hand and leads him out of the house. Facsimile of an engraving belonging to the series "The Dance of Death" by Hans Holbein the Younger, in "Les Simulacres de la Mort", 1538. From "Vie Militaire et Religieuse au Moyen Age et a l'Epoque de la Renaissance", Paris, 1877.