Photographic Print : The Pastorals of Virgil, Eclogue I: The Shepherd chases away a wolf, 1821. Creator
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The Pastorals of Virgil, Eclogue I: The Shepherd chases away a wolf, 1821. Creator
The Pastorals of Virgil, Eclogue I: The Shepherd chases away a wolf, 1821. In 1820, Blake was commissioned to illustrate a new edition of The Pastorals of Virgil, published as a school text, which included commentary by Dr. Robert John Thornton on the famous poem from the 1st century BC. Blakes seventeen wood engravings became tremendously influential to the Ancients. Samuel Palmer (also in this gallery) wrote of these wood engravings: " They are visions of little dells, and nooks, and corners of Paradise; models of the exquisitest [sic] pitch of intense poetry... There is in all such a mystic and dreamy glimmer as penetrates and kindles the inmost [sic] soul." Despite Palmers poetic description, Blakes wood engravings were not images of an unchanging paradise. Instead, they record an evershifting and often ambiguous relationship between the artist and his environment. They describe a landscape of Blakes imagination---a wellspring of dreams and artistic inspiration, yet simultaneously a land of doubts and shadows, sweet delusions and unformed hopes
Media ID 19648353
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1757 1827 William Blake William Blake British
10"x8" (25x20cm) Photo Print
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Estimated Image Size (if not cropped) is 25.4cm x 16cm (10" x 6.3")
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