Men and women look at a statue of the Grim Reaper, a skeleton with scythe, labeled Memento Mori, 18th century. The figures include a soldier in uniform, priest with hat, gentlewoman with fan, etc. 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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