An elderly man with a skull and an hourglass, representing the misery of old age. Engraving by C.G. Schultze, 1770, after C.-F. Hutin.

1770

1 print : engraving, with etching ; image and text 33.7 x 21 cm

Ich werde viel aelter und Schwermuth und Plage, Droht meiner schon sinkenden Haelfte der Tage. Hagedorn. Ch. Hutin pinx. C.G. Schultze incid: Dresdae 1770. Zu finden in der Dyckschen Buchhandlung in Leipzig. Translation of the quotation from Hagedorn: I become much older, and melancholy and misery (or sickness) threaten the declining half of my days

Wellcome Collection 533690i