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Colinet Resting at Cambridge by Night
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 48i)
Acquired at an unknown date   OS24
National Gallery of Victoria

Colinet: The damp, cold greensward for my nightly bed, And some slant willow's trunk to rest my head.

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