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Engraving of Death on a skull-wheeled chariot drawn by oxen, trampling crowned figures and fallen people beside a burning cit

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An engraved print shows a skeletal, scythe-bearing figure labeled Mors riding a skull-decorated chariot pulled by oxen over a heap of fallen people. Crowns, a mitre and a sceptre lie among the dead, while a burning city and a distant temple appear in the background.

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