The image shows the Three Fates and is an artwork titled A Golden Thread by J M Strudwick, a British painter who died in 1935. The Romans called the Fates the Parcae; the Greeks knew them as the Moirai or Moerae. By name they were Clotho, who spun the thread of a person's life; Lachesis, who measured the thread; and Atropos, who cut it. The Romans knew them as Nona, Decuma, and Morta.