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Menalcas' Yearly Wake
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 48k)
Acquired at an unknown date   OS26
National Gallery of Victoria

Colinet: For him our yearly wakes and feasts we hold.
Three girls dancing on a lawn; parents in arm-chairs looking on.

(c)1999 National Gallery of Victoria