Fountain of Time
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Fountain of Time, or simply Time, is a sculpture by Lorado Taft, measuring 126 feet 10 inches in length, situated at the western edge of the Midway Plaisance within Washington Park in Chicago, Illinoi
Fountain of Time in southeast Washington Park at the western edge of the Midway Plaisance
View from the east
View of mass of humanity from the front of the middle south portion
Front south
Father Time
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Father Time is a personification of time, in particular the progression of history and the approach of death. In recent centuries, he is usually depicted as an elderly bearded man, sometimes with wing
Fountain of Time
…in Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. The sculpture is inspired by Henry Austin Dobson's poem "Paradox of Time". Its 100 figures passing before Father Time were created as a monument to the 100 years of peace between the United States and the United Kingdom following the Treaty of Ghent in 1814. Father…
A 19th-century Father Time with Baby New Year
Detail of Father Time in the Rotunda Clock in the Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C. (1896)
Father Time in Fountain of Time
Father Time on an Irish memorial stone, displaying an empty hourglass to a mourning widow