Ruin, perdiod after 80 years until death; a field full of ruins and spolia; at centre, a man, asleep on a chair inside a niche; with saturn seated on top of it; the skeleton of death standing by the man asleep, holding a sickle, to right; an hourglass next to it; behind, a building on fire and man escaping from it. Engraving. Date: 1600. Dimensions: Height: 209 mm; Width: 271 mm. Medium: paper. Depicted People: Time. Collection: British Museum. Theatrum Vitae Humanae (The Life of Man) (BM 1948,0410.4.166)
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