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Father Time FromElizabeth1AtOldAge 1610, Portrait painting

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Father Time FromElizabeth1AtOldAge 1610, Portrait painting

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Segment (in mirrored view) of an allegorical Portrait of Elizabeth I with Old Father Time at her right. Death is looking over her left shoulder while two Cherubs remove her weighty crown. so she became princess but not queen' ("English School" painting, dated around 1610). Compare this to "The Bellman" (SnarkFront.svg) on the front cover illustration of Henry Holiday's and Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark. (See also http://holiday.snrk.de/FatherTime.cgi.)

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allegorical portrait of elizabeth i with old father time
allegorical portrait of elizabeth i with old father time