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.

  • Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
Date:
December 1st 1798
Reference:
39262i
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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")

Publication/Creation

London (Paternoster Row) : G.G. & J. Robinson, December 1st 1798.

Physical description

1 print : engraving, with etching ; image 26 x 32 cm

Lettering

Tail piece. The bathos or manner of sinking in sublime paintings, inscribed to the dealers in dark pictures...Fig 26. Designed by Wm. Hogarth. Engraved by T. Cook Lettering continues: ..see the manner of disgracing ye most serious subjects in many celebrated old pictures; by introducing low, absurd, obscure & often prophane circumstances into them...

References note

R. Paulson, Hogarth's graphic works, 3 ed., London 1989, related to [216]

Reference

Wellcome Collection 39262i

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