Death stands on a barricade. A skeleton in plumed cap, great coat and boots man stands with a flag on a barricade of barrels mattresses and rocks. Behind him, workers armed with rifles are killed by artillery fire. Woodcut by Carl August Zsheckel after an illustration by Alfred Rethel from Ein Todtentanz aus dem Jahr 1848, A Dance of Death for the Year 1848, Georg Wigand, Leipzig, 1849.

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