Source
Source: Woodcut in: Francesco Petrarca, Trostspiegel in Glück und Unglück. Franckfurt am Mayn: Egenolff (1584), page 189. MDZ, urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb11200496-9
Abstract
The image below depicts a woman dying of the plague. She is surrounded by human and animal corpses, and her attendants have no better protection than handkerchiefs pressed to their faces.
Plague in the House (16th Century)
Recommended Citation
Plague in the House (16th Century),
published in: German History in Documents and Images,
<https://germanhistorydocs.org/en/from-the-reformations-to-the-thirty-years-war-1500-1648/ghdi:image-3364>
[April 22, 2025].