Wall Clock with Mantel c. 1939

Richard Taylor made this "Wall Clock with Mantel" sometime between 1855 and 1995, and it's rendered in watercolor, graphite, and pen and ink on paper. The clock is painted in great detail, and there's something very still about it. I wonder what Taylor was thinking as he recreated this object, stroke by stroke? It’s a rendering of an object, but also a vanished time and place. The clock face is a portal to another world, an earlier America. The lower part of the clock has a landscape, with a building in the distance. Like a memory, maybe? I feel like I'm looking into the past, through a window, with the clock's hands frozen in time. It's a reminder that every moment becomes history.