The skeleton of Death attacking a beggar. The beggar tries to hit him with a crutch, but Death kicks him and pulls on his coat. Der Bettler. 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 in Totentanz from the original copperplates by Walther Nithack-Stahn, Eigenbrodler Verlag, Berlin, 1926.

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