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That Which You Have Not Consumed, Voracious Time (Plate 3 of Buildings in the Style of the Greeks, Romans, and Etruscans)

(Italian, 1711–1772)
mid 18th century
Medium/TechniqueEtching
DimensionsSheet: 27.3 x 20.5 cm (10 3/4 x 8 1/16 in.)
Platemark: 17.1 x 11.5 cm (6 3/4 x 4 1/2 in.)
Credit LineGift of V. Winthrop Newman
Accession number29.1981.3
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPrints
InscriptionsEtched in the plate, bottom margin, "Che non consumi tu, Tempo vorace. / no. 3. N."
ProvenanceV. Winthrop Newman, New York, London (early 20th cent.); his gift to the MFA November 1, 1929