Palemon and Lavinia [graphic].

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Title: Palemon and Lavinia [graphic].
Contributor: Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794, publisher.
Published / Created: 19 Aug, 1787.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed for R. Sayer, Printseller, No. 53 Fleet Street as the act directs
Abstract: In a rural setting, a young man and woman stand in a wheat field under at tree. They are holding hands, while he recites lines to her. She holds a bundle of wheat in her apron
Description: Title from item.
Numbered '177' in lower right corner of plate.
Caption below the image from James Thomson's The seasons: "And art thou then Acasto's dear remains? She whom my restless gratitude has sought, So long in vain, O Heav'ns! the very frame. The soften'd image of my noble friend."
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. iv.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 15.3 x 12 cm, on sheet 20 x 14 cm
Language: English

Genre: Parodies, imitations, etc
Genre prints
Mezzotints England London 1787
Material: mezzotint ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): English.
Subject (Name): Thomson, James, 1700-1748
Thomson, James, 1700-1748.
Subject (Topic): Agricultural laborers
Subjects: Thomson, James, 1700-1748 > Parodies, imitations, etc
Thomson, James, 1700-1748
Agricultural laborers > English
England > London > 1787

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