Time smoking a Picture, William Hogarth, 1761

Subscription ticket for "sigismonda" with a figure of time as an old winged man sitting on a broken statue, blowing pipe-smoke at a dark landscape painting which he has pierced with his scythe; to left, a large jar labelled "varnish"; sheet trimmed before receipt and mounted on sheet with false platemark. 1761 etching, engraving and mezzotint. Date: 1761. Dimensions: Height: 228 mm (cropped); Width: 183 mm. Medium: paper. Collection: British Museum. Time smoking a Picture (BM Cc,2.195)

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