The skeleton of Death, Freund Hans, comes for the school mistress at a girls’ school, 18th century. The skeleton wears a shawl as she approaches the teacher at her desk, while girls flee in horror. Resignation of tacit approval. Schweigenbe Ergebung. 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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