Death in the guise of an elegant female skeleton luring a gentleman to his death. The print is from a series of 25 images published in Freund heins Erscheinungen in Holbeins Manierin by Johann Musaus, showing different ways that death takes people. Engraving, Johann Rudolf Schellenberg, 1785.

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