Staircase of Old Age, Ten steps of the stairway of old age, in the form of a bridge, are ten men aged 0 to 100 years. Under the bridge three arches with allegorical representations: in the middle The Last Judgment. At the bottom of the text: Des menchen and nangergangh d'ee sweet and dander bangh. At the top in cartouches two 4-line verses in Dutch, the ages of man represented by a staircase, Death as skeleton, owls, anonymous, Amsterdam, 1612 - 1652, paper, engraving

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Staircase of Old Age, Ten steps of the stairway of old age, in the form of a bridge, are ten men aged 0 to 100 years. Under the bridge three arches with allegorical representations: in the middle The Last Judgment. At the bottom of the text: Des menchen and nangergangh d'ee sweet and dander bangh. At the top in cartouches two 4-line verses in Dutch, the ages of man represented by a staircase, Death as skeleton, owls, anonymous, Amsterdam, 1612 - 1652, paper, engraving

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