Time Smoking a Picture, William Hogarth, March 1761

The grim reaper, smoking a pipe, contemplates a painting with the greek text and a reference to the spectator vol. Ii, page 83. Beneath is the text "as statues moulder into worth" "for nature and your self appeal, nor learn of others what to feel. ". Date: March 1761. Dimensions: sheet: 9 3/16 x 7 3/16 in. (23.4 x 18.2 cm). Medium: etching and mezzotint. Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Time Smoking a Picture MET DP119740