print
- Museum number
- 2018,7031.4
- Title
- Object: Ruit Hora (The hour is flowing away)
- Description
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Clockface with skull in the middle surrounded by numbers with sun, crescent moon and stars in corners. c.1893-96
Etching with monotypic surface tone, printed on cream wove simili-japan paper
- Production date
- c.1893-1896
- Dimensions
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Height: 350 millimetres
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Height: 515 millimetres
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Width: 350 millimetres (image)
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Width: 462 millimetres (sheet)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This etching was part of a project by Conconi and the sculptor Prince Paolo Troubetzkoy to produce clocks. Although the clocks were never realized, they were intended as a daily memento mori inspired by images from the Baroque. In the centre of the image (on the septum of the skull) can be seen a small etched circle where the hands of the clock were intended to be fixed. Few proofs were printed; each is indicated in roman numerals following the signature, in this case 23. The example in the Raccolta Bertarelli, Milan is numbered 29.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2019, 11 April - 18 July, London, BM, G90a, 'Symbolist Prints'
- Acquisition date
- 2018
- Acquisition notes
- Purchased by the donor from Mattia Jona who bought work from Paul Nicholls.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2018,7031.4
