Gallery›Wellcome Collection›An elderly man with a skull and an hourglass, representing the misery of old age. Engraving by C.G. Schultze, 1770, after C.-F. Hutin.
An elderly man with a skull and an hourglass, representing the misery of old age. Engraving by C.G. Schultze, 1770, after C.-F. Hutin.
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An elderly man with a skull and an hourglass, representing the misery of old age. Engraving by C.G. Schultze, 1770, after C.-F. Hutin.

Charles-Francois Hutin

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Lettering: Ich werde viel aelter und Schwermuth und Plage, Droht meiner schon sinkenden Haelfte der Tage. Hagedorn. Ch. Hutin pinx. C.G. Schultze incid: Dresdae 1770. Zu finden in der Dyckschen Buchhandlung in Leipzig.

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