Freund Heins Erscheinungen in Holbeins Manier

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Bey Heinrich Steiner und Comp., 1785 - 165 Seiten
The first modern Dance of Death, abandoning Holbein's characters in favor of contemporary events and different modes of death, such as suicide and accident. Satiric comment on current events includes a depiction of death via an early prototype hot air balloon invented two years prior, in 1783. Other new subjects include a bibliophile, a tightrope walker, a lottery player, a usurer, a teacher, members of secret societies, and a gourmand.
 

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