Minerva points a boy to Father Time who flies by, Die Zeit / Tempus (title on object), Allegories (series title), Next to Minerva stands a boy with a laurel wreath and a book who looks up at Father Time. Minerva points out to him that Time flies by. A man is sleeping under a tree: he is wasting his time. With four lines of verse in German and two lines in Latin. Numbered at the top right: , print, print maker: Jeremias Wachsmuth, (mentioned on object), after own design by: Jeremias Wachsmuth, (mentioned on object), publisher: Societas, (mentioned on object), Augsburg, 1721

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