The skeleton of Death embraces a poor man, 18th century. Death points a bony hand to the sky while pushing the old man into an open grave. Safe passage for a friend. Signature in mirror writing. Freundes Geleit. Copperplate engraving by drawn and engraved by Johann Rudolf Schellenberg from Johan Karl Musaus’s Freund Heins Erscheinungen in Holbeins Manier, (Apparitions of Death in the manner of Holbein), Heinrich Steiner, Winterthur, 1785.

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