The skeleton of Death, Freund Hans, pulls a tightrope walker to his death, 18th century. The skeleton rides a donkey and pulls the acrobat’s leg. A large crowd watches the performance on a village green. The acrobat. Der Equilibrist. 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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