Menalcas watching women dance Thornton's Pastorals of Virgil
Printmaker: Blake, William
Height: 37 mm
Width: 79 mm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Riches, Thomas Henry
Production date: AD 1821
Plate 13 to The Pastorals of Virgil, edited by Dr. R.J. Thornton, from the Imitations of the Eclogues, Ambrose Philips, 1821. Of the 230 illustrations, Blake was responsible for designing and executing 4 engravings and 17 woodcuts illustrating Ambrose's Imitation of the Eclogues.
Support composed of paper
Accession number: P.59-1950 (13)
Primary reference Number: 118197
Bindman: 614
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