Two female shepherds (line 2), a man and woman in a bower with a shepherd attending a sheep (lines 3, 4, 5, 6), a drunken man in a field (lines 7, 8, 9), a woman cutting vines (lines 10, 11) and a huntress breaking her bow (lines 12, 13, 14, 15): illustrations of Eclogue III Illustrations to Virgil's Eclogues and Imitations of Virgil's Eclogues
Printmaker: Unknown
Bequest of Henry Scipio Reitlinger, 1950, transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1991) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
Production date: circa AD 1820
Five illustrations on the same sheet. P.2075-1991 (10) printed on the verso.
Support
composed of
wove paper
( remains of binding on edge)
Sheet
Height 173 mm
Width 103 mm
Image
Height 27 mm
Height 28 mm
Height 29 mm
Width 78 mm
Width 80 mm
Width 81 mm
Accession number: P.2075-1991 (9)
Primary reference Number: 94998
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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