Allegory of transience. Vanitas still life with a skull crowned with a laurel wreath, books, an hourglass, an extinguished candle, a vase with flowers and various painter's attributes. In the foreground open books showing prints. In the open book in the middle: Marc 13-13: Wie volstandich[...]salig worde. and: : Salich syn de doode[...]follow haer after. Front left, a copper plate depicting Hercules, with the monogram of Hendrick Hondius, Vanitas still life with a skull and laurel wreath t' Eijnde croont het werck Memento Mori. Finis Coronat Opus , print maker: Hendrick Hondius (I), (

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