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Engraved book illustration of a cloaked figure at a stone gate marked PORTA MORTIS, with a rising sun and trumpeting angel.

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Howells, Stops of Various Quills, 1895 011, Howard Pyle (1895), Wikimedia Commons. Via artnap.com

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A black-and-white book illustration shows a cloaked figure beside a stone portal inscribed with the Latin words PORTA MORTIS, under a rising sun over rocky terrain. Below a text page titled Company, a small winged angel blows a trumpet. This 1895 print by Howard Pyle accompanies the poem in Howells' Stops of Various Quills.

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