The skeleton of Death, Freund Hans, in cassock gives a letter with wax seal to a monk outside a monastery, 18th century. Other monks in hooded habits watch in horror. Abolition of the monastery. Aushebung des Klosters. 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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