Bucolic

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A young, sturdy country woman sits on a fence, her arms akimbo, looking squarely at the viewer.

And Lallage, with cow-like eyes,
Will be disposeress of the prize.

Artist

Name:: Abbey, Edwin Austin
Dates:: 1852-1911
Country:: US

Illustration

Subject:: People
Technique:: Wood Engraving
Format:: Landscape (wider)
Source:: University of California Libraries, the Internet Archive

Book

Title:: Selections from the poetry of Robert Herrick
Author:: Herrick, Robert
Publisher:: New York: Harper & Brothers, 1882
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A young, sturdy country woman sits on a fence, her arms akimbo, looking squarely at the viewer.
This picture is an illustration for the poem “A Bucolic, or Discourse of the Neatherds.”

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