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Thenot Remonstrates with Colinet, Lightfoot in the Distance
One of fourteen wood-engravings from a series of seventeen executed to illustrate Ambrose Phillips's 'Imitation of Eclogue 1' in Robert John Thornton, The Pastorals of Virgil, 3rd edn, London, 1821
(NGV 48c)
Acquired at an unknown date   OS18
National Gallery of Victoria

Colinet: Thine ewes will wander; and the heedless lambs,
In loud complaints require their absent dams. Thenot: See Lightfoot; he shall tend them close; and I
'Tween whiles across the plain will glance mine eye.

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