The skeleton of Death kills an alchemist with an explosion. The alchemist is blown up in his laboratory. Berthold Schwarz, legendary German alchemist of the late 14th century credited with the invention of gunpowder. 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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