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Winged Skeleton with Hourglass on a Tombstone [1642]

1642

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lang="nl" xml:lang="nl">Gevleugeld skelet met zandloper op een grafsteen, or, Winged Skeleton with Hourglass on a Gravestone, after Teodoro Filippo di Laigno.

Here we have a wingèd angel of death as a skeleton lifting up an hour-glass through which the sands of time are trickling all too fast. The angel is sitting on a gravestone.

The gravestone is inscribed with a Latin quote from Psalm 88 (psalm 89 in most English bibles), Who can live and not see death; the psalm continues, Who can escape the power of the grave?.

There is also a note that it was printed by H. Hondius in 1642 in the Hague.

Image at Rijksmuseum

prints, skeletons, bones, death, hour-glasses, time, graves, gravestones, spooky, angels, wings

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