The skeleton of Death guides a quack doctor to his death, 18th century. The apothecary stands in a shop decorated with a crocodile, scales, bottles of drugs, medicines and poisons. A crowd of sick and infirm people watch. Pharmacist. Signature in mirror writing. Der Afterarzt. 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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