Allegory of transience (vanitas), John de Groot (II), After Johannes de Boekhorst, 1745 print Allegory of transience with three children whose soap bubbles blows. Another holds a parrot and a third plays a lute. There is a skull in the foreground. Northern Netherlands paper engraving (children or putti) blowing bubbles, 'Homo Bulla' ~ scene symbolizing 'Vanitas'. one person playing string instrument (plucked). lute, and special forms of lute, : theorbo. ornamental birds: parrot. 'Vanitas' symbols

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