Respice Finem

Heinrich Aldegrever

Cleveland Museum of Art

Black and white engraving of a nude woman with long wavy hair. She faces right with her right arm bent across her waist and her left arm holding a curtain behind her. To her right, an hourglass sits on a stack of objects with a skull underneath. A skull and shovel lie on the ground to her left. A sphere with a ribbon reading "respice finem" sits on the ground behind her on the left. A distant landscape appears behind her with a town, a body of water, and a sunburst radiating from the right. A small rectangle in the upper right corner contains "1529" and monogram.