2-698-982 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Sun-Dial in the Temple, 1885', (1897). Sundial in Pump Court, Temple, London, erected in 1686. It is inscribed with the words: 'Shadows we are and Like shadows depart', a reference to the transitory nature of human existence. From Old and New London, Volume I, by Walter Thornbury. [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris & Melbourne, 1897]