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Selbstmörder und der Geige spielende Tod (1917/Radierung auf Velin) - Stefan Eggeler

The contemplation of the nine stages of a decaying corpse is a Buddhist meditation practice in which the practitioner imagines or observes the gradual decomposition of a dead body. Along with paṭikūlamanasikāra, this type of meditation is one of the two meditations on "the foul" or "unattractive" (aśubha). The nine stages later became a popular subject of Buddhist art and poetry. In Japan, images of the stages are called kusōzu (九相図, lit. 'nine-phase pictures')   (Wiki)

Death as a Skeleton [before 1754] unknown artist Victoria and Albert Museum

John Wilde, The Great Dog of Night (1984)

The Florence Tribune, Nebraska, October 29, 1909

William Blake (1757-1827), frontispiece for America a Prophecy, 1793, medium colour relief etching on wove paper, Harvard Art Museums.

'The Last Houses'. Albert Birkle. 1922.