Imagination tame Father Time Title page for: JC Weyerman. The life descriptions of the Dutch art painters and art painters, 1729, Father Time, with a broken scythe in his hands, is grabbed by his wings by an allegorical female figure with a mask on her belt, the personification of art, or the imagination. On the left in the foreground two putti with the portrait of Arnold Houbraken in an oval. The personification of the imagination refers to the writer's attempt to save the artists recorded in the book from oblivion through descriptions of life. Around the performance a print of a second plate with an ornamental border in which four biblical and four mythological representations., man with wings and scythe, Imagination, 'Imaginatione' (Ripa), mask, cupids: 'amores', 'amoretti', 'putti', Jacob Houbraken, Amsterdam, paper, etching, h 147 mm × w 100 mm × h 183 mm × w 135 mm
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