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Time is blowing pipe-smoke onto a painting...
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Time is blowing pipe-smoke onto a painting while his scythe has sunk into the canvas. Engraving by T. Cook after W. Hogarth.

Further lettering within the print: the motto on the picture frame is a quotation from Crates.

Translation of the lettering: "For time is not a great artist, but weakens all he touches".

"Time smoking" was a common metaphor for the ageing process. "Crates" prefixed to the Greek motto on the picture frame identifies the author of the quote

The original etching of "Time smoking a picture" (1741) was used as a subscription ticket for "Sigismunda".

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Keywords: Thomas Cook; William Hogarth
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