Time himself is dying with his scythe and hourglass broken and his pipe snapped, he comes to an end uttering "Finis". Engraving by T. Cook after W. Hogarth.

William Hogarth · 1798

Lettering: Tail piece. The bathos or manner of sinking in sublime paintings, inscribed to the dealers in dark pictures...Fig 26. Designed by Wm. Hogarth. Engraved by T. Cook. Lettering continues: ..see the manner of disgracing ye most serious subjects in many celebrated old pictures; by introducing low, absurd, obscure & often prophane circumstances into them...