Two skeletons of Death attack a German general on horseback. One skeleton on a spectral horse fires a musket, while another hooks him with a scythe. The General. Der General. Copperplate engraving drawn and etched by Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki from a series of Dance of Death, originally published in the Lavenburg Calendar in 1792. Reprinted from the original copperplates in Totentanz by Walther Nithack-Stahn, Eigenbrodler Verlag, Berlin, 1926.

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