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The arts of Minerva reduce the power of Time to end life, but death from old age or from plague still exists. Engraving by G. Glover, 1639. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Top, a crowned woman (Minerva?) waves a wand over the natural world of animals and trees, with lettering "Art can slay Nature's decay"; Time, with scythe, reads a book, with lettering "Let time looke on this booke". Below, left, an aged couple walking with sticks; right, people and animals dying from epidemic disease, and birds falling out of the sky. Bottom, two roundels containing, left, dead animals ("To death all ...") and right human bones ("At last fall") Bottom centre, portrait of Sir Francis Bacon
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