|
|
|
|
 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 48b) Acquired at an unknown date OS17 National Gallery of Victoria Colinet: Yet though with years my body downward tend As trees beneath their fruit in autumn bend, Spite of my snowy head and icy veins, My mind a cheerful temper still retains. |
|