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Post Funera Vita: After Burial, Life, from 'Pictorum aliquot celebrium, praecipué Germaniae Inferioris, effigies', 1610...

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Image title: Post Funera Vita: After Burial, Life, from 'Pictorum aliquot celebrium, praecipué Germaniae Inferioris, effigies', 1610 (engraving)
Artist: Hondius, Hendrik the Elder (1573-c.1649) / Flemish
Location: British Library, London, UK
Medium: engraving
Date: 1610 AD (C17th AD)
Dimensions: 21.5x13.7 cms

Image description: Latin inscription: Post Funera Vita (After Burial, Life) Complete transcription: POST FUNERA VITA Pallida Mors omnes petit, huic parere necesse est. Non Color hic ullus, non juvat ullus Honos. Qui bene vixerunt, horum est POST FUNERA VITA: Qui bene pinxerunt vivere Morte puta. Ad vivum pictis tabulas nova vita paratur. Post mortem ut possit vivere quisque parent. Hagae-Comitis: 'ex officina Henrici Hondii, [1610?] Source/Shelfmark: C.74.d.6.(2.) page 72 Plates, signed: H. H, derived from the collection originally compiled by Hieronymus Cock, with the verses of Dominicus Lampsonius, and enlarged by Hondius.
Photo credit: From the British Library archive / Bridgeman Images
Image keywords: hourglass / skeleton / life / death / time / living / arrow

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