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Nothing to see here, dear #histodons , except a human skeleton (with a hat and a feather) riding a #unicorn skeleton that is positioned next to two other animal skeletons (of a bear? and a deer?).
Did I mention yet that the 4 skeletons are standing in an #earlymodern library? #LibraryHistory
And the historian found a source that explains it: the library room is the "Theatrum Anatomicum" of the Altdorf university, and we see a bear, a burglar with a stick and his horse, and a deer. And the story goes that the burglar once terrorized a road near Altdorf, and he was always smoking his tobacco pipe and using his stick. And when he was finally caught, they killed him together with his horse.
@dbellingradt Nope, not the Theatrum Anatomicum 
https://online-service.nuernberg.de/viewer/image/06858094/48/LOG_0017/, just the Bibliotheca publica Universitatis Altdorfinæ.
@dbellingradt Erst später kamen das Pferd des Winterkönigs, der Croate, der Bär und der Hirsch in die Anatomiekammer, s. https://books.google.de?id=WullAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA170
@dbellingradt Präpariert wurden die Skelette laut obigem Buch von https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moritz_Hofmann.
@dbellingradt Zum 1669 straffällig gewordenen Hirsch siehe https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetzel_von_Kirchensittenbach: "Um 1670 legte Philipp Jacob Tetzel in Engelthal einen Tiergarten, ein Wildgehege, an; dort wurde er 1669 durch eine Hirschangriff tödlich verletzt. [13]"