The skeleton of Death lays his bony hand on a judge’s shoulder in his chambers, 18th century. The judge in ruff collar and robes. A servant woman watches in horror. Bribes of coffee, sugar, ham, rabbit and game fowl on the table. Bribery. Bose Spende. 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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