Father Time - San Marino, CA - Epic Beings and Creatures on Waymarking.com

This sculpture depicts Father Time as an older man with a scythe at his side and holding an hourglass. He also has wings. There is no sign at the site to indicate the title, artist or date.

Wikipedia (visit link) informs us:

"Father Time is the anthropomorphized depiction of time.

Description

Father Time is usually depicted as an elderly bearded man, dressed in a robe and carrying a scythe and an hourglass or other timekeeping device (which represents time's constant one-way movement, and more generally and abstractly, entropy). This image derives from several sources, including the Grim Reaper and Chronos, the Greek Titan of human time, reaping and calendars, or the Lord of Time.

Around New Year's Eve many editorial cartoons use the convenient trope[1] of Father Time as the personification of the previous year (or "the Old Year") who typically "hands over" the duties of time to the equally allegorical Baby New Year (or "the New Year") or who otherwise characterizes the preceding year."

Approximate Date of Epic Period: c. 1600 Epic Type: Mythical Exhibit Type: Figure, Statue, 3D Art Time Period: Not listed

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