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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 48e) Acquired at an unknown date OS20 National Gallery of Victoria Colinet: Sure thou in hapless hour of time wast born, When blightning mildews spoil the rising corn, Or when the moon, by wizard charm'd, foreshows, Blood-stain'd in foul eclipse, impending woes. |
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