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William Blake|Robert John Thornton|Virgil

Unyok'd Heifers, Loitering Homeward (Return of the Shepherd), from Thornton's "Pastorals of Virgil"

1821
Wood engraving
3.3 × 7.6 cm (1.3 × 3 in)

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