“Times are Changing
and We are Changing with Them” (aka “Tempora mutantur, et nos mutamur in illis”),
c1607/12, published in Antwerp by Prostant apud Philippum Lisaert in
1612, as an illustration shown facing page 176 in Otto van Veen’s
“Quinti Horatii Flacci Emblemata, Imaginibus in Æs Incisis, Notisque,
Illustrata” (The emblems of Quintus Horatius Flaccus, illustrated with images
engraved on them, and noted) with accompanying lines from Horace’s (aka
Quintus Horatius Flaccus) (65–8 BCE) “Odes”, Book III.
Engraving on fine
laid paper trimmed around the image borderline (or slightly within) and backed
with a support sheet.
Size: (support
sheet) 31.3 x 25.2 cm; (sheet) 18.1 x 14.8 cm.
The following
translation of the accompanying text for this illustration may help to give the
flavour of the writing (my apologies for errors in the translation): “Time
makes everything worse, bringing new vices, emerging from the open wood of
Pandora, with all evils. Our fathers passed their ancestors into malice, and
we, worse than them, will leave nephews behind us, who owe us vice.” (p. 176).
Archive.org
offers an online view of this print in its context in the publication: https://archive.org/details/quintihoratiifla00veen/page/177/mode/2up.
See also this
engraving and accompanying text offered by De Digitale Bibliotheek voor de
Nederlandse Letteren (DBNL): https://www.dbnl.org/tekst/vaen001quin01_01/vaen001quin01_01_0088.php.
Note that this
impression is from a Latin edition that is different from the publication
showcased by Archive.org (based on looking at the layout when the print is held
to the light).
Condition: a well-printed
impression, trimmed around the image borderline and laid onto a support of
archival (millennium quality) washi paper providing wide margins. The sheet is
in a very good condition for its age, with no tears, holes, folds, abrasions,
stains or foxing.
I am selling
this marvellous emblem print with Father Time (aka Chronos) carrying his scythe—his
famous leveller of men—flying over ancient ruins bringing with him
what I assume may be allegorical putti figures of the vices, for the total cost
of AU$237 (currently US$158.24/EUR146.06/GBP128.37 at the time of this listing)
including Express Mail (EMS) postage and handling to anywhere in the world, but
not (of course) any import duties/taxes imposed by some countries.
If you are
interested in purchasing this visual reminder of the constancy of vices with
changing times, please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will
send you a PayPal invoice to make the payment easy.
This print has been sold
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