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 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 48d) Acquired at an unknown date OS19 National Gallery of Victoria Colinet: The riven trunk feels not the approach of spring; Nor birds among the leafless branches sing. Ill-fates tree! and more ill-fated I! |
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