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Life and death

Posted on September 28, 2002July 17, 2023 by Jeff

Life and Death Contrasted, or an Essay on Women and Death and Life Contrasted, or an Essay on Man by Robert Dighton,1784.

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Pete September 30, 20024:44 pm

Funny, I used to see prints like this (half body, half skeleton) hanging in people’s houses in Thailand as a kind of memento mori.

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