The skeleton of Death assisting a man with a flintlock pistol to commit suicide. 18th century man in a room with chest of drawers and clock, inkwell and quill pen on his desk. Desperation. Der Berzweiflungsvolle. Signature in mirror writing. 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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