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Woodcut of skeletal Death on a horse riding over fallen people in a city street, with fleeing townspeople and German verse below.

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A skeletal Death rides a pale horse through a street, sweeping a scythe over fallen bodies while townspeople flee or cower at the right. Dense hatching renders the buildings, smoke and crowd in a black-and-white woodcut style, with German verses printed in a caption band below.

Artist
August Gaber, after drawing by Alfred Rethel
Date
1848-1849
Medium
Source
Rijksmuseum
Size
4000 × 3182 px
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Public domain · Rijksmuseum marks it Public Domain Mark; made by 1849.
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: Public Domain Mark (Rijksmuseum, image license https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

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