The skeleton of Death in dress, shawl and bouffant hairstyle as a prostitute embraces a libertine, 18th century. Gentleman in wig, riding coat, breeches, with cane and sword. Death and the philanderer. Bartered Expectations. Getauschte Erwartung. 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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