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The Good Shepherd Chases Away the Wolf
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 48f)
Acquired at an unknown date   OS21
National Gallery of Victoria

Colinet: Nor fox, nor wolf, nor rot among our sheep:
From these good shepherd's care his flock may keep.

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