The skeleton of Death, Freund Hans, assisting a man with a flintlock pistol to commit suicide. 18th century man in a room with chest of drawers and clock, inkwell and quill on his desk. Desperation. Der Berzweiflungsvolle. Copperplate engraving by Johan Georg Mansfeld after an original by Johann Rudolf Schellenberg from Johan Kark Musaus’s Freund Heins Erscheinungen in Holbeins Manier, (Apparitions of Death in the manner of Holbein) Mannheim, 1803.

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