Print, book-illustration (BM 1895,0122.803)

The Abbot; Death, walking towards the left, with mitra and staff, grasping the abbot's clothes and dragging him behind; first published with text in Les simulachres & historiees faces de la mort, avtant elegamment pourtraictes, que artificiellement imaginées ..., Lyon, M. and G. Trechsel (for Jean and François Frellon), 1538 (8°); this impression is part of the so called proofs, a set without text, probably published by M. Trechsel, Lyon, 1526. c. 1526
Woodcut