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Vanity
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Vanity

Heinrich Aldegrever · 1529 · engraving; paper

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

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Personification of Transience. A naked woman, seen from the side, standing by a grave, in her left hand an hourglass and a cloth, in her right a fruit. By the open grave lie a skull, a spade and a ball with the motto Respice Finem (think about the end).

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
Credit lineVergankelijkheid. 1529. Heinrich Aldegrever. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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