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A skeleton as memento mori. Etching.
Wellcome Collection

A skeleton as memento mori. Etching.

Unknown artist

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Wellcome Collection

Lettering: L'etat de la Mort. Souviens toy que tu es poudre et que tu retourneras en poudre. Pecheur, il faut mourir, tu le scais pour certain, et tu ne penses pas à faire penitence; Helas! le temps te presse, et peut-estre demain, tu receuras de Dieu ta derniere sentence.

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