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An aged winged figure of Time with his scythe stands before a table on which stands a two-headed clerical figure. Engraving.
Date: [1763?]Reference: 579100i- Pictures
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Three women holding parasols watch two men cutting hay and one man sharpening his scythe. Colour wood engraving after R. Caldecott, 1881.
Caldecott, Randolph, 1846-1886.Date: 1881Reference: 33244i- Pictures
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Makers of scythes and sickels hammering a metal blade on an anvil. Woodcut by J. Amman.
Amman, Jost, 1539-1591.Date: [1568]Reference: 34945i- Pictures
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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 1798Reference: 39262i- Pictures
Death, holding a scythe, has two children within his shadow; advertising the Red Barnet organization (Save the Children Fund Denmark). Colour lithograph by Marli (?) Lunbeck (?), 1946.
Lunbeck, Marli.Date: [1946?]Reference: 653087i- Pictures
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The dance of death: Death as a standard-bearer, flying the standard from his scythe, is seen leading troops against their fatherland. Drawing by or after E. Ille.
Ille, Eduard, 1823-1900.Date: 1849Reference: 32952i- Pictures
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A woman personifying anatomy looks searchingly into the light emanating from a corpse, but she is mortally threatened by the scythe of Time; representing anatomy's struggle with decay. Engraving by N-G. Dupuis, 1759, after J-B-M. Pierre.
Pierre, Jean-Baptiste Marie, 1714-1789.Date: 1759Reference: 26007i- Pictures
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Death as a skeleton is about to cut down with a scythe two plants in which people are living. Wood engraving by J.L. Williams after E.K. Johnson.
Johnson, Edward Killingworth, 1825-1896.Date: 1800-1899Reference: 578903i- Pictures
A man carried off on horseback through the sky led by death holding a scythe and escorted by witches. Etching by L. Lambert, 1902 after P.F. Namur, 1901.
Namur, Paul-Franz, 1877-1958.Date: 1902Reference: 562730i- Pictures
Actor Bandō Hikosaburō as a distressed young woman with festive ornaments in her hair: holding a scythe in one hand and a letter in the other. Colour woodcut by Yoshiiku, 1865.
Ochiai, Yoshiiku, 1833-1904.Date: 1865Reference: 35391i- Pictures
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A man holds a scythe as winged creatures fly above him, three figures approach on a horse, and another figure approaches from the left with a scroll. Woodcut, ca. 1700-1720.
Date: 1700-1720Reference: 603072i- Pictures
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A seated figure of Time holding a scythe and an hourglass with a female figure of Geometry holding dividers and a female figure resting a book on her knee. Red chalk drawing.
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Love conquering time: Cupids seize Father Time's hourglass, break the blade of his scythe, and crown two hearts smouldering with the fire of love. Colour lithograph by E. Wattier after F. Boucher.
Boucher, François, 1703-1770.Date: [between 1855 and 1866]Reference: 2853397i- Pictures
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The patriarch Asher milking a goat, men ploughing and sowing the fields, and the goddess Ceres holding a scythe; a cornucopia lies on the ground. Etching by D. Coornhert after M. van Heemskerck.
Heemskerk, Martin van, 1498-1574.Date: [1550]Reference: 30141i- Pictures
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An allegory of agriculture: Ceres reclining amidst a collection of farm implements, she holds a sheaf of wheat and a scythe. Engraving by W. Bromley, 1789, after a sculptural panel by Mrs E. Coade.
Coade, Eleanor, 1708-1794.Date: 1789Reference: 496431i- Pictures
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Time is blowing pipe-smoke onto a painting while his scythe has sunk into the canvas; representing the ageing of paintings as they acquire Old Master status. Engraving by T. Cook after W. Hogarth.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Date: Decr. 1 1802Reference: 39265i- Pictures
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A farm worker has fallen among the corn owing to starvation, and has dropped his scythe and barrel; another worker is also about to faint. Engraving by Anthony Cardon after P.J. de Loutherbourg after himself.
Loutherbourg, Philippe-Jacques de, 1740-1812.Date: Feby. 1 1803Reference: 30059i- Digital Images
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Neolithic rock engaving depicting scythes, Norway.
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Men working with scythes
Date: c1900Reference: HB13/15/164Part of: Records of Gartnavel Royal Hospital, Glasgow, Scotland- Pictures
Clio, muse of history, sitting at a desk writing on a scroll while Chronos, god of time, is standing next to her holding his scythe, both are pointing to a globe in the foreground, above them Fame blowing a trumpet; representing History. Engraving by Vandrebanc after M. Touronde.
Touronde, M.Reference: 38938i- Pictures
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The figure of death in a red cloak bearing the words 'AIDS' and 'HIV' with his scythe and a syringe bearing the word 'heroin' piercing the black silhouette of a reclining figure; a drug safety and AIDS prevention advertisement by the Committee on AIDS Hanoi. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
Date: [1995?]Reference: 678210i- Pictures
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A group of vaccinators leading a small-pocked woman form a procession past a university, with Death waving his scythe behind them; the members of the university doze in the foreground; attributing the decline of Germany in 19th century to vaccination and syphilis. Lithograph after C.G.G. Nittinger, 1856.
Nittinger, Carl Georg Gottlob.Date: 1856Reference: 17876i- Pictures
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Steel saws, scythes, and other edged implements in steel. Engraving by W.H. Lizars.
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La haz perdió su filo : a la vuelta se encontrará información acerca del Mafarside en el tratamiento de la sífilis ... / Parke, Davis & Compañía.
Date: [1942?]- Pictures
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A doctor, straddled by a skeleton, holds a full purse in his hands; signifying that he lives well off others' deaths. Coloured lithograph by G. Engelmann.
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