LIFE OF HOLBEIN. II writers on this subject: because, although habit and practice might enable him to handle the pencil familiarly with his left hand, yet, as it is so unusual, it must have had but an unseemly and awkward appearance in a picture ; which probably might have been his real inducement for representing himself without such a particularity. Besides, the writer of Holbein's life, at the end of the treatise by De Piles, mentions a print by Hollar, still extant, which describes Holbein drawing with his left hand. Nor is it so extraordinary or incredible a circumstance; for other artists are remarked for the very same habit; particularly Mozzo of Antwerp, who worked with the left; and Amico As-pertino, as well as Ludovico Cangiagio, who worked equally well with both hands. This great artist died of the plague at London in 1554; some think at his lodgings in "Whitehall, where he had lived from the time that the king became his patron, but Ver-tue rather thought at the Duke of Nor-