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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