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Black and white engraving of a skeleton playing violin before a crowd, a running child, and a writing figure beside the word

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Howells, Stops of Various Quills, 1895 033 large a, Howard Pyle (1895), Wikimedia Commons. Via artnap.com

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A black and white wood engraving shows a skeletal figure playing a violin before a crowd of onlookers, with a small child running in the foreground. On the right, a cloaked figure in a crown of thorns writes on a sheet of paper beneath a stone archway, while the word MELANCHOLIA appears on the page. This print by Howard Pyle is dated 1895 and is held by Wikimedia Commons.

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