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The Winged Death in Cologne –The Vanitas Experience of the Dying Woman(Death, The.) While receiving the sacraments the winged death with hourglass and arrow appears to the dying woman. Engraving. (1679.) 8.8 x 6.2 cm. Verso: (The Last Judgement.) Earth breaks up and releases the dead, filled with amazement, gratitude, and – expectation. Engraving as before. – Works by an anonymous engraver – otherwise named as "Stich fecit", but such one not provable here – of a catechism of Petrus Cansius SJ, Cologne 1679. – Weak waterstreak above the image. There and also outside of the image a larger acid-freely repaired tear with loss of some letters of the general text.
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