The skeleton of Death, Freund Hans, guides a quack doctor to his death, 18th century. The apothecary stands in a shop decorated with a crocodile, scales and bottles of drugs, medicines and poisons. A crowd of sick people watch. Pharmacist. Der Afterarzt. 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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