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Use the Sixel protocol: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixel.

xterm -ti 340
sudo apt install libsixel-bin
curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/saitoha/libsixel/data/data/libsixel-1.png | img2sixel

Note that xterm shall be compiled with --enable-sixel option and shall be launched with the option -ti 340. Limited to 16 colors.

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