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Colinet Mocked by Two Boys
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.

(c)1999 National Gallery of Victoria