Allegory of the threat to Vienna from the cholera epidemic in 1831/32: The personification of Austria kneels on the coat of arms with five eagles (larks) and looks imploringly to the sky. Hovering behind her is the personification of cholera with bat wings and a vessel that she empties into the Danube. The scene takes place on the Kahlenberg with a view of the Leopoldsberg and the Danube valley, with the city of Vienna at dawn on the right in the background. Leopold Bucher, 1832.
(Austrian National Library)
Sic Transit Pestilentia 