The skeleton of Death press-gangs a man into military service outside a public house, 18th century. The skeleton wears a soldier’s bicorn and sword while a fiddler plays a violin. Press gang or swindler. Der Werber. 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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