The skeleton of Death visits a boys’ school, 18th century. The teacher looks up with fear, while pupils flee and hide under desks. The schoolroom decorated with hourglass, desks and books, Silence written on the wall. The school visit. Signature in mirror writing. Schulvisitation. 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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