A Rolling Stone Is Ever Bare of Moss, from Thornton's "Pastorals of Virgil"

The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Drawings and Prints

A Rolling Stone Is Ever Bare of Moss, from Thornton's "Pastorals of Virgil"

William Blake|Robert John Thornton|Virgil

Date
1821
Medium
Wood engraving
Dimensions
block: 1 1/2 x 3 1/16 in. (3.8 x 7.8 cm)
Object type
Print
Classification
Prints
Object number
31.87.22
Credit line
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1931

Artist information

British, London 1757–1827 London|British, 1768–1837|Roman, Andes 70 BCE–19 BCE Brundisium

Subjects and terms

  • Men
  • Working

The Met object ID 383513. The source CSV marks this record public domain, the official API identifies it as image-bearing, and the image was reverified as public domain before this page rendered.