The skeleton of Death feeds a baby in swaddling clothes with a spoon in a bedroom, 18th century. The mother watches with horror, and a cat licks milk from a bowl next to the crib. Death and the baby in swaddling clothes. Unwelcome zeal. Signature in mirror writing. Unwillfommene Diestbeflissenheit. 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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