The skeleton of Death comes for a guard. Death in a tricorn and boots with rapier grabs the soldier's belt and musket. The sentry in 18th century German military uniform looks surprised. Die Schildwache. Copperplate engraving drawn and etched by Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki from a series of Dance of Death, originally published in the Lavenburg Calendar in 1792. Reprinted in Totentanz from the original copperplates by Walther Nithack-Stahn, Eigenbrodler Verlag, Berlin, 1926.

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