Time Clipping the Wings of Love

Artist James McArdell (British, ca. 1729 - 1765)

After Anthony van Dyck (Flemish, active Britain, 1599 - 1641)

Datec. 1765

MediumMezzotint

DimensionsTrimmed to Platemark: 19 3/4 x 13 15/16 in. (50.2 x 35.4 cm)

Credit LineBequest of Robert Getscher from the Getscher-Wilkinson Collection

CultureBritish

Catalogue raisonnéLe Blanc 10, i?/II (before the letters); Goodwin 209, ii/III.

Object numberPC2014.14.275

ClassificationsPrint Collection

DescriptionAn allegorical image of Time--an old winged man with a scythe--clipping Cupid's wings with large shears. The little Cupid tries to twist out of Time's grasp as he looks back at his threatened wings. They are surrounded by a dark landscape, with a fallen column just in the background to their left.

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