The skeleton of Death, Freund Hans, 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. A ham, rabbit and game fowl on the table. The judge. Bose Spende. 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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