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Time is blowing pipe-smoke onto a painting...
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Time is blowing pipe-smoke onto a painting...

William Hogarth · 1802

CC0 — Public Domain
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Lettering: Translation of the lettering: "For time is not a great artist, but weakens all he touches" Further lettering within the print: the motto on the picture frame is a quotation from Crates.

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