All is Vanity
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All is Vanity (1892), is an optical illusion illustration by Charles Allan Gilbert when Gilbert was only eighteen years old, the drawing depicts what appears to be a large grinning skull. This work was sold in 1902 to Life Publishing Co.
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- The skull beneath the skin, 2008 by John Coulthart
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