Imagination tames Father Time, Title page for: A. Houbraken, The great theater of Dutch painters and painters, 1753, 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 imagination. In the left foreground two putti near the portrait of Arnold Houbraken in an oval. The personification of imagination refers to the writer's attempt to save the artists recorded in the book from oblivion through biography., print, print maker: Jacob Houbraken, print maker: Arnold Houbraken, (rejected attribution), Amsterdam, 1753, paper, etching, engraving, height, 146 mm × width, 98 mm
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