The skeleton of Death, Freund Hans, kills an alchemist with an explosion. The alchemist is blown up in his laboratory. Berthold Schwarz, legendary German alchemist of the late 14th century credited with the invention of gunpowder. 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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