Identification title(s): colinet is mocked. Colinet mocked by two boys. Illustrations of imitation of eclogue i (series title). Object type: picture book illustration object number: rp-p-1981-93. Inscriptions / marks: collector's mark, verso center, stamped: lugt 2228 collector's mark, verso center right, stamped: lugt 2760 inscription, recto bottom center, printed: 'colinet'. Description: colinet standing between two trees with an instrument in his hand is being mocked by two boys. Manufacture. Manufacturer: printmaker: william blake, according to his own design by: william blake, client: robert john thornton. Place of manufacture: england. Dating: 1820 - 1821. Physical features: wood engraving. Material: paper technique: wood engraving. Dimensions: image: h 35 mm × w 77 mmexplanationillustration from "imitations of ecologue i", the eighteenth-century imitation of the first eclogue of virgil, written by ambrose philips, in which two shepherds thenot and colinet converse with each other. The print is part of a series of wood engravings that was intended as an illustration for the school book "the pastorals of virgil", published in 1821. The commission for these prints was given by dr r. J. Thornton. Botke, k. Subject: what: illustration ~ printed matter, book, mocking, insulting; teasing. Credit line: purchase from the f. G. Waller fund. Acquisition: purchase 1981. Date: between 1820 and 1821.
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