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Sabrina's Silvery Flood
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 48g)
Acquired at an unknown date   OS22
National Gallery of Victoria

Colinet: Unhappy hour! when fresh in youthful bud
I left, Sabrina fair, thy silvery flood.

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