Time himself is dying with his scythe and hourglass broken and his pipe snapped, he comes to an end uttering "Finis". Engraving by T. Cook after W. Hogarth.

The print is a culmination of pessimistic images and a parody of a certain kind of painting and aethetic theory. Real figures are supplied with tragic accouterments and become bathetic: "The end of all things" is a profusion of objects that have all come to an end, the cracked bell, the broken bottle etc. Near the dying Time is the World's End tavern and around him are the last pages of a play ("Exeunt omnes")