Thenot Under Fruit Tree, from The Pastorals of Virgil

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Thenot Under Fruit Tree, from The Pastorals of Virgil, 1821. Wood engraving on off-white wove paper.

Wood engraving on off-white wove paper · Image/block: 3.2 × 7.5 cm · Art Institute of Chicago

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Museum title: Thenot Under Fruit Tree, from The Pastorals of Virgil
Artist: William Blake English, 1757-1827
Date: 1821
Medium: Wood engraving on off-white wove paper
Dimensions: Image/block: 3.2 × 7.5 cm (1 5/16 × 3 in.); Sheet: 6.4 × 10.8 cm (2 9/16 × 4 5/16 in.)
Credit line: William McCallin McKee Memorial Endowment
Image license: CC0 1.0 · Public domain
Museum record: Art Institute of Chicago

Artist’s life 1757–1827

Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.