Father Time is usually depicted as an elderly bearded man, dressed in a robe and carrying a scythe and an hourglass or other timekeeping devices (which represent time's constant one-way movement, and more generally and abstractly, entropy).

Around New Year's Eve many editorial cartoons use the convenient trope of Father Time as the personification of the previous year (or "the Old Year") who typically "hands over" the duties of time to the equally allegorical Baby New Year (or "the New Year") or who otherwise characterizes the preceding year.

Chronos, personification of time in Greek mythology, is frequently confused with, or perhaps consciously identified with, the Titan, Cronus, in antiquity, due to the similarity in names. This identification became more widespread during the Renaissance, giving rise to the iconography of Father Time wielding the harvesting scythe.

* Fourth pageant of Elizabeth I’s Coronation Event (1558/9) – Truth (Vēritās) is Olde Father Tyme’s daughter.
* The Winter’s Tale, by William Shakespeare (1611)
* “The Lass with the Golden Locks” (song) (18th century)
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blue_Bird_(play) The Blue Bird] (play), by Maurice Maeterlinck (1908)
* Father Time’s Christmas Trial, by Frank I. Hanson (1913)
* A Christmas Dilemma (play), by Katharine Van Etten Lyford (1920) – Father Time and the Old Year are two separate characters.
* The Sweet Girl Graduate (play), by Carolyn Wells (May 1921)

*“Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion’s paws,” [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonnet_19 sonnet 19] by William Shakespeare (1609)
*“A Proclamation by Old Father Time,” by Francisco de Quevedo (17th century)
*“To His Coy Mistress,” by Andrew Marvell (1681)
*“Anciente Poetrie,” by W. Beloe (Sept. 1795)
*“The Pit and the Pendulum,” by Edgar Allan Poe (1842) – Father Time is painted on the dungeon ceiling.
*Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll (1865) – The Hatter claims to know Time well and can request time distortions from him.
*“In Time’s Swing,” by Lucy Larcom (1874)
*“The Capture of Father Time,” by L. Frank Baum (1901)
*King Time, or The Mystical Land of the Hours, by P. K. Fitzhugh (1908)
*The Children’s Blue Bird a.k.a. The Blue Bird for Children, by Georgette Leblanc (1913) – adaptation of play above
*'A Happy Solution' by Margaret Johnson (Jan. 1916)

* The Sands of Time (1913)
* Woman: Past and Present (1913)
* The Coquette’s Awakening (1915)
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destiny:_Or,_The_Soul_of_a_Woman Destiny; or, The Soul of a Woman] (1915)
* The Faith of Sonny Jim (1915)

*Alice Plays Cupid (1925)
*Boy Meets Dog (1938)
*The Ducktators (1942)

*Kid Eternity #2
*This Magazine is Haunted #8
*Strange #6
*Weird Comics #19
*Whiz Comics #26
*Pep Comics #31-32
*Police Comics #11
*New Funnies #71
*Wow Comics #19
*Feature Comics #94
*Green Lama #8
*Tick Tock Tales #8
*Green Hornet Comics #33
*Smash Comics #84
*Supermouse #29

*[http://www.comicvine.com/father-time/4005-26147/ ComicVine]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father_Time Wikipedia]
*[http://carrollbryant.blogspot.ca/2012/12/legend-father-time.html The Legend of Father Time]
*[http://www.comics.org/character/name/father%20time/sort/alpha/ Grand Comics Database]
*[https://www.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FatherTime TV Tropes]
*[https://myths-in-media.fandom.com/wiki/Father_Time Myths in Media Wiki]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20160307154329/http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0029153/ IMDb] (archived)
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