Death as victor riding on horseback over corpses

Death as victor riding on horseback over corpses. A skeleton in laurel wreath holding a flag rides his horse over the dead on a barricade of doors and barrels. His horse licks a dead revolutionary's wounds as women and children weep. Woodcut by August Gaber after an illustration by Alfred Rethel from Ein Todtentanz aus dem Jahr 1848, A Dance of Death for the Year 1848, Georg Wigand, Leipzig, 1849

Anti-socialist Barricade Corpses Dead Bodies Insurgents Laurel Wreath Leipzig Revolt Weep Wounds

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