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Mortalité

from The Grand Etteilla, printed c. 1875-1899, to Etteilla's design of 1788

A skeleton with a scythe strides over open ground, a dark bird overhead and pale peaks, perhaps pyramids, on the horizon. Upright Mortalité, reversed Néant, nothingness. The unnamed Death of the Marseille packs gets both a name and a bleaker downside here.

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