The skeleton of Death, Freund Hans, brings a lottery number to a gambler in a wood-panelled room, 18th century. The gambler holds his head, while a servant points to him. The lottery player. Der Lottospieler. 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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