The skeleton of Death, Freund Hans, press-gangs a man into military service outside a public house, 18th century. The skeleton wears a soldier’s bicorn and sword while a fiddler plays a violin. Press gang or swindler. Der Werber. 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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