The typhus louse shaking hands with Death. Colour lithograph by O. Grin, 1919.

  • Grin, O., active 1919.
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[1919]
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536675i
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Death is shown as a skeleton carrying a scythe, with an hourglass at his feet

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Moskva [Moscow] : T-VO...[name indistinct], [1919]

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1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; image and border 108 x 73.2 cm

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Vosh' i smert' druz'i︠a︡ Pri︠︡iateli unichtozhaĭte vsheĭ raznosi︠a︡shchikh zarazu! O. Grin 1919.

References note

Naomi Baumslag, Murderous medicine: Nazi doctors, human experimentation, and typhus, Westport, Conn., 2005, p. 9 (reproduced)

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Wellcome Collection 536675i

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