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 48j) Acquired at an unknown date OS25 National Gallery of Victoria Colinet: Untoward lads, the wanton imps of spite, Make mock of all the ditties I indite. |
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