The skeleton of Death pours wine into the mouth of an obese glutton, 18th century. A maid brings a tureen of soup to the dining table while another guest flees. Signature in mirror writing. The Glutton. Der Schlemmer. 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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