Death of a balloonist in a Montgolfière-style balloon. Death pushes the pilot from an exploding balloon above a large crowd, 18th century. The balloonist. Der Aerostat. 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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