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Medium
Woodcut
Size
6.4 × 4.9 cm
Collection
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Inventory
19.57.15
Period
Basel, 1515–1525
Series
The Dance of Death, no. 15
Attribution
Hans Holbein the Younger

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