Allegorical figures of Love, Hope and Beauty struggling with the figure of Time. Mezzotint by J. Smith after S. Vouet.

[London] : I. Smith ex, [between 1600 and 1699]

1 print : mezzotint, with etching ; image 30.7 x 24.8 cm

Love, Hope and Beauty all together strive to stop the pace of this old fugitive, old tho' he is, and fall'n he seems to say, this fall of mine will prove your own one day ; S Voet pinx: I. Smith ex:

Lettering gives designer's surname as Voet: the composition follows an engraving by Michel Dorigny after a painting by Simon Vouet

Wellcome Collection 34879i