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hourglass

13 artworks. Compare how artists drew it, or what it meant to them.

Style 1 2

Hourglass
Sweden
Upplands Museum
hourglass of wood, glass, brass
Sweden
Swedish History Museum

Style 2 1

Untitled (Hourglass)
Mary Vaux Walcott, born Philadelphia, PA 1860-died St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada 1940 · 1870s
Smithsonian

Style 3 1

musikinstrument, trumma, musical instrument
Sweden
Museum of Ethnography

Style 4 1

Skull and Hourglass
Jensen, C.A. · 1714-1814
SMK – National Gallery of Denmark

Named in the museum's description 8

The hourglass is small, hidden or only part of the story in these works, so they're shown whole.

Longcase clock
c. 1760 - c. 1765
Rijksmuseum
Panel with the Letter "V" from the "Newes ABC Büechlein"
Lukas Kilian, German, 1579 – 1637 · 1620s
Smithsonian
Såningskorg.
Sweden
Museum of Ethnography
timglas, hylsa, hourglass
Sweden
Museum of Ethnography
Stool
Central Africa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nyanga, early 20th Century · before 1929
Cleveland Museum of Art
Design for a Clock on an Apartment Panel
Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742; Gabriel Huquier, French, 1695–1772; Chez Huquier; Gabriel Huquier, French, 1695–1772 · 1740s, 1760s
Smithsonian
Mantel Clock Design
Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790; A. Colinet, French, active 18th century; Jacques-François Chéreau, French, 1742–1794 · 1770s, 1790s
Smithsonian
Timglas av förgyllt silver, tillverkat av Rudolf Wittkopf och skänkt 1713 av änkedrottningen Hedvig Eleonora. Domkyrkomuseet, Uppsala domkyrka, Uppsala 2009
Norling, Olle
Upplands Museum