The skeleton of Death, Freund Hans, embraces a poor man, 18th century. Death points a bony hand to the sky while leading the old man to an open grave. Safe passage for a friend. Freundes Geleit. 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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