Identification title(s): time / transience. Object type: drawing design object number: rp-t-1926-29. Description: the drawing is a design for a wall painting. Manufacture. Manufacturer: illustrator: antoon derkinderen. Dated: 22-feb-1899. Physical characteristics: pencil and colored pencil. Material: paper pencil. Dimensions: h 505 mm × w 500 mm explanation design for a wall painting in the building of the general society of life insurance and annuity in amsterdam: 2nd design, 'de tijd/transience'. Subject: what: (personifications of) 'vanitas', the vanity of human life; fragilità humana, fugacità delle grandezze & della gloria mondana, meditatione della morte, opera vana, piacere vano, vana gloria, vanità (ripa), allegory of time and eternity. Acquisition: unknown 1926. Date: 22 February 1899.
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