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