Father Time, seated on the globe, averts his eyes from the venal scenes depicted in the money-bags around him, involving the fraudulent financier Augustus Melmotte. Wood engraving by H. Linton after F. Barnard.

  • Barnard, Frederick, 1846-1896.
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The money bags contain (top centre) a portrait of Melmotte, (bottom centre) Melmotte dying after drinking prussic acid, and other episodes in the novel The way we live now by Anthony Trollope, first published in 1875

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1 print : wood engraving ; image 19.6 x 12.7 cm

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The way we live now by Anthony Trollope ; FB ; H. Linton

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The monogram on the left appears to be one used by Frederick Barnard

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Wellcome Collection 578900i

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