Note 17 — PREFACE.

Keysler, in his Travels before referred to, Vol. I. P. 171, speaking of the Dance of Death, at Basil, says, it is generally reputed to have been painted by Holbein, who had also drawn and painted a Death’s Dance, and had likewise painted, as it were, a Duplicate of this Piece on another House, but which Time has entirely obliterated. “However,” adds he, “for several Reasons the Death’s Dance near the French Church may be presumed not to be Holbein’s, but the Work of another Artist whose Name was Bock.”