The skeleton of Death leads away a Roman woman while pointing to a Viennese woman with a bony hand, 18th century. Viennese and Roman women. Signature in mirror writing. Wienerin und Romerin. 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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