The skeleton of Death, Freund Hans, crushing a userer in his money chest, 18th century. The miser drops bags of gold coins on the floor, while his servants watch in horror. The loan shark or usurer. Der Wucherer. Copperplate engraving by Johan Georg Mansfeld after an original by Johann Rudolf Schellenberg from Johan Kark Musaus’s Freund Heins Erscheinungen in Holbeins Manier, (Apparitions of Death in the manner of Holbein) Mannheim, 1803.

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