The skeleton of Death, Freund Hans, embracing the author Musaus and the artist Schellenberg. They stand in a library and shake hands while holding a print of the Grim Reaper, a skeleton with scythe. The room has a bookcase, writing desk, quill pen and anatomy figure. Decision. Beschluss. Copperplate engraving by Johan Georg Mansfeld after an original by Johann Rudolf Schellenberg from Johan Kark Musaus’s Freund Heins Erscheinungen in Holbeins Manier, (Apparitions of Death in the manner of Holbein) Mannheim, 1803.

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