The skeleton of Death slashes a fishwife with a scythe. The fishwife falls on the ground, while others gut fish in barrels. Das Fischweib. Copperplate engraving drawn and etched by Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki from a series of Dance of Death, originally published in the Lavenburg Calendar in 1792. Reprinted in Totentanz from the original copperplates by Walther Nithack-Stahn, Eigenbrodler Verlag, Berlin, 1926.

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