The skeleton of Death in cassock delivers a letter with wax seal to a monk in front of a monastery, 18th century. Other monks in hooded robes watch in horror. Abolition of the monastery. Aushebung des Klosters. 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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