Tempus.

Etching and engraving, 22,2 x 33,2 cm, laid paper with watermark (double crown: possibly Briquet 5003), signed in the plate "Gerar. d. Jode" (trimmed to platemark).

Under passe-partout.

Very rare engraving from the series "The Allegories of the use and abuse of Time" (4 pl.). Sl. grey but good impression. Inscribed on image: "Sperne voluptates...sibi", "Praemium quod...utentibus" and "Tempus". Lettered in margin below image with four lines of verse in Latin: "Elapsum tempus..opes". Only state.
Ref. New Hollstein (De Jode), II:548.