Menalcas Watching Women Dance, from The Pastorals of Virgil
William Blake · 1821 · Wood engraving on off-white wove paper
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About this picture
Menalcas Watching Women Dance, from The Pastorals of Virgil is a public-domain illustration by William Blake, dated 1821. Wood engraving on off-white wove paper. The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.
“Menalcas Watching Women Dance, from The Pastorals of Virgil” (1821) belongs with Blake’s printed visions. He usually etched the plate himself and often printed it in small numbers for his own books.
About the artist
William Blake (1757–1827) was an English poet and printmaker. In his illuminated books he wrote the text and etched the pictures himself. The images are visions, not records of a place.
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