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To the Painter

Index: INDEX/BCMSV/6381

Details

Type: Index

Record number: INDEX/BCMSV/6381 (Lt 104 )

Title: To the Painter

Author: Pinnell, Peter (?)

Attribution: Peter Pinnell

Date(s): 175- or 176- ?

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/103106

Reference

Manuscript: Lt 104

Pages: f.66r

Description

Notes: (So well the)

First lines: So well the image of my fair

Your pencil has exprest

Last lines: That no produce of art can vie

With nature's operation

Length: 8

Verse form: Two stanzas, abab

Contents: Lines addressed to a painter on the following theme: that art, however expert, can never compete with representations in nature