Brevity posters & prints

Boy Blowing Soap Bubbles. Allegory on the Transitoriness and the Brevity of Life, 1663 Anonymous

Boy Blowing Soap Bubbles. Allegory on the Transitoriness and the Brevity of Life, 1663 Karel Dujardin

Arcadian Shepherds, c.1655 Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione

A Vanitas Still Life with a Skull, Crown, Sceptre, Flute, Bellows, Hourglass, Carnations in a Glass Vase, Scroll, Book and... Vincent Laurensz van der Vinne

Brevis Narratio, Culture and Sowing Seeds, 1563 Theodor de Bry

Brevis Narratio, Theodor de Bry

Ecclesiastes (Vanity of vanities, all is vanity), 1899 Isaac Lvovich Asknazy

Breviceps adspersus (common rain frog, Transvaal short-headed frog) Anonymous

The Golden Hour, 1865 Samuel Palmer

Leaf Excised from a Breviary of Charles the Bold and Margaret of York…, c. 1467-1470 Simon Marmion

Leaf from a Book of Hours: The Nativity and Text, c. 1430 Unknown

Breviceps mossambicus (flat-face frog, Mozambique rain frog) Anonymous

Pachytriton breviceps Anonymous

Simplicity Francesco Bartolozzi

Reading the Breviary, The Evening Carl Spitzweg

Pogona brevis (bearded dragon) - young Anonymous

Pogona brevis (bearded dragon) Anonymous

Diamond Stingray (Dasyatis brevis) Anonymous

Pogona brevis (bearded dragon) Anonymous

Leaf from a Book of Hours: The Nativity, c. 1430 Unknown

Time of the Old Women, 1820 Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes

Short-tailed Black Swallowtail Butterfly (Papilio Brevicauda) Feeding on Common Dandelion, Prince Edward Island, Canada Anonymous

The Fly William Blake

A Vanitas Still Life Pieter Claesz

Venerantur Floridenses, illustration taken from 'Brevis narratio eorvm qvae in Florida Americae provicia Gallis acciderunt' 1591 Jacques (1533-88) Le Moyne

Allegory of Impermanence Arnoud van Halen

Edmund Burke, 1782 Charles Bretherton

Old woman and child by candlelight Frans van den Wijngaerde

Ars Longa, Vita Brevis, 1900 Ralph Hedley

Levity, the property of J.C.Cockerill Esq., with her foal Queen Elizabeth, the property of Lord Dorchester, 1843 John Frederick Herring Snr

The Cape of Florida and the Dolphin River from 'Brevis Narratio' Jacques (1533-88) (after) Le Moyne

Chusquea breviglumis (bamboo) - shoot Anonymous

Hairpin Corner, Ramsey George Bellett Cowen

Leptopelis brevirostris (Cameroon forest treefrog) Anonymous

Nicolas, Rétif de la Bretonne Louis Berthet

Chusquea breviglumis (bamboo) - shoot Anonymous