1-624-674 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Time smoking a picture', 1761. Subtitled 'As Statues moulder into Worth', a comment on the 18th-century idea that decay and patina were somehow evidence of genuine origin and true age. Illustration from Social Caricature in the Eighteenth Century ... With over two hundred illustrations by George Paston [pseudonym of Emily Morse Symonds], (London, 1905).