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