De kapelle der dooden, of, De algemeene doodenspiegel : in welken all menschen, van wat staat of rang zy zyn mogen, zich tot hun nut konnen beschouwen : om indagtig ti zyn het memento mori, gedenkt te sterven ...
A Dutch devotional book of 1737, the Amsterdam edition of Abraham a Sancta Clara's meditations on death, printed by several Amsterdam publishers for a general readership seeking spiritual reflection on mortality. Its small copper-engraved pictures show skeletons confronting living people in everyday settings, and a designer might take from them the dance-of-death tradition's blunt, narrative staging: a single figure per scene, plain landscape or interior backgrounds, and strong contrast between the living and the bony figure of Death.
