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A HISTORY OF NORFOLK It is curious to note for how long a time representations of the Dance of Death continued. A similar one to this at Norwich was to be found in the portrait of John Carter, Mayor of Yarmouth in 1627, a full century later than the date of the Jannys portrait, in which the same ghastly skeleton stands waiting for his prey and repeating the words ' remember thy ende.'^ The subject of the continuance of pictorial art in Norfolk in the changed form of portrait painting does not however enter into the scope of this account of mediaeval painting, and with this slight reference to the Jannys portrait as marking the end of one period and the beginning of another in the painter's art in the county, it may very well be brought to a close.

  • An engraving from this picture is in the Dawson Turner Coll., Add. MS. B.M., 23,051, f, 122.

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