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Medium
Woodcut
Collection
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Inventory
1943.3.9427
Period
Basel, 1515–1525
Series
The Alphabet of Death, no. 17
Attribution
Hans Holbein the Younger

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1928 × 1928 px. Photograph: public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Record: Wikidata.

Woodcut initial R on a hatched ground, with a skeleton crowned with leaves grappling a jester in a fool's hood, a skull on the ground below.