The good man at the hour of death [graphic].

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Title: The good man at the hour of death [graphic].
Creator: Chambars, Thomas, approximately 1724-1789, printmaker
Contributor: Hayman, Francis, 1708-1776, artist.
Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794, publisher.
Published / Created: [1771?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed for Robert Sayer, Map & Printseller, N. 53 Fleet Street
Abstract: A man lying in bed looks upward while Father Time with an hour-glass in his left hand and a scythe in his right one approaches the bed. In the background is a breakfront filled with books. A Bible lies on a chair next to the bed and there are several books on a table at the foot of the bed
Description: Artist and printmaker identified in Thieme-Becker, v. xvi, p. 180
Plate numbered '13' in lower left corner.
One line of quote below title: Let me die the death of the righteous & let my last end be like his.
A companion print: The bad man at the hour of death.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Father Time -- Death -- Books: Bible -- Furniture: bookcases -- Canopy bed -- Literature: quotation from Bible, xxiii.10.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. iv.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 152 x 112 mm, on sheet 20 x 14 cm
Language: English

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