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Father Time and the Virgin is a statue located on the cupola of the Masonic Hall at Mendocino, California. An old statue of Father Time sits on the grounds at Sandringham Estate in Norfolk, England. A clock featuring Father Time, created by Guéret Frêres, Atelier Cartier, and Vincenti et Cie, may be viewed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. [18]
Chronos and His Child by Giovanni Francesco Romanelli, National Museum in Warsaw, a 17th-century depiction of Chronos as Father Time, wielding a harvesting scythe. During antiquity, Chronos was occasionally interpreted as Cronus. [7] According to Plutarch, the Greeks believed that Cronus was an allegorical name for Chronos. [8]
Father Time is a weathervane at Lord's Cricket Ground, London, in the shape of Father Time removing the bails from a wicket. The full weathervane is 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) tall, with the figure of Father Time standing at 5 ft 4 in (1.63 m). [1] It was given to Lord's in 1926 by the architect of the Grandstand, Sir Herbert Baker.
There was a different kind of Father Time who had fought Hawkman.This version is a brash young scientist who traveled across the world, obtaining various plants reputed to enhance mental capacity, and developed a brew that gave him the wisdom of the ages while aging his body rapidly to old age.
Later automatons usually perform on the hour, half-hour or quarter-hour, usually to strike bells. Common figures in older clocks include Death (as a reference to human mortality), Old Father Time, saints and angels. In the Regency and Victorian eras, common figures also included royalty, famous composers or industrialists.
Gaunt, white-bearded, and funereal, "Old Father Time" is at once the most familiar and the most ominous member of the Wrecking Crew quartet. With his hour-glass he measures out the precious hours allotted us on earth; with the stroke of his scythe he mows us down when our hour has come. He is always before us on the fairway of life.
Father Time (Larry Scott) is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.The character was created by writer Stan Lee and artist Al Avison and first appeared in Captain America Comics #6 (Sept. 1941), [1] published by Marvel predecessor Timely Comics during the period fans and historians call the Golden Age of comic books. [2]
Father Time, a 2008 album by American country music singer Hal Ketchum "Father Time", a 1996 single by Stratovarius on the album Episode "Father Time", a 1991 song by Richie Sambora from Stranger in This Town