The skeleton of Death grabs the hand of a woman at a ball, 18th century. Her dance partners, gentlemen in wigs and breeches, watch in horror. Prerogative. Des Starkern Vorrecht. 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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