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The skeleton of Death fights a duel with a gentleman in a street in town, 18th century. The gentleman thrusts with his sword in the moonlight. Death armed only with a cape. Der Zweikampf. 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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