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Father Time and Transience
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Emblematic print on the death of the De Witt brothers. The depiction shows Father Time pondering at a table on which stands an hourglass and a skull with a laurel wreath, the portraits of Johan and Cornelis de Witt and some open books lie. The books are Vondel's 'Palamedes or Murdered Innocence' and 'The Lives of the Illustrious Greeks and Romans' by Plutarch. Under the right foot of Time lies the torn 'Eternal Edict', next to it two extinguished torches and a snake. In the background above a gate the image of Johan van Oldenbarnevelt.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit lineVader Tijd en de vergankelijkheid. 1672 - 1676. Coenraet Decker. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
