Fable of the old man and death, Aegidius Sadeler (II), After Marcus Gheeraerts (I), 1608 print An old man with a large backpack is stopped on a road through death. The man falls back. The fable tells how an old traveler complains because his backpack is too heavy. When he wants to die himself during his lamentation, death comes to fulfill this desire. The moral of the story shows that nobody wishes to die. Prague paper etching / engraving / letterpress printing fables. Death as skeleton. old man. 'en route', traveller under way

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