Book Title: Oeuvre de Jean Holbein; ou, Recueil de gravures d'apres les plus beaux ouvrages de ce fameux peintre. Publié par C. de Mechel

Author: Holbein, Hans, 1497-1543.

Image Title: The Cardinal

Description: A messenger delivers a papal bull to a cardinal, as Death pulls at the cardinal’s hat. In the lower right corner is an hourglass, representing human mortality. Engraved by Chrétien de Mechel (1737–1817) after the original design by Hans Holbein, the Younger (1498–1543).

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