The skeleton of Death brings a lottery number to a gambler in a wood-panelled room, 18th century. The gambler holds his head, while a servant points to him. The lottery player. Der Lottospieler. Signature in mirror writing. 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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