Time smoking a Picture (BM Cc,2.196)

Subscription ticket for "Sigismonda" with a figure of Time as an old winged man sitting on a broken statue, blowing pipe-smoke at a dark landscape painting which he has pierced with his scythe; to left, a large jar labelled "Varnish"; sheet trimmed before receipt and mounted on sheet with false platemark. 1761
Etching, engraving and mezzotint