The skeleton of Death comes for the school mistress at a girls’ school, 18th century. The skeleton wears a shawl as she approaches the teacher at her desk, while girls flee in horror. A pulpit and notice board behind them. Resignation of tacit approval. Schweigenbe Ergebung. Signature in mirror writing. 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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