The skeleton of Death embracing the author Musaus and the artist Schellenberg. They stand in a library and shake hands. Schellenberg in turban holds a print of the Grim Reaper, a skeleton with scythe. The room has a bookcase, writing desk, quill pen and another Reaper figure with scythe. Decision. Signature in mirror writing. Beschluss. 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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