He is a stealer.
![Juxtaposition of two prints, both showing hand gestures that indicate thievery.](https://doctorschnabel.net/wp-content/themes/zoom-lite/assets/images/misc/placeholder/ajax-loader.gif)
Left: Detail from Le docteur est rempli de si grande séance, anonymous French engraving by Jacques Honervogt, 17th c. Musée du Louvre, Paris. Right: Der Doctor Schnabel von Rom, engraving by Paulus Fürst (1656), British Museum, London.
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