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". 1761 etching, engraving and mezzotint. Date: 1761. Dimensions: Height: 261 mm; Width: 184 mm. Medium: paper. Collection: British Museum. Time smoking a Picture (BM S,2.156 1)

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