The Nymphs
Albert Moore
1868
Wood engraving by W. J. Palmer
3½ x 3¼ inches
Illustration for Milton’s Hymn on Christ’s Nativity, 1868, p.35.
The Nymphs in ‘twilight shade of tangled thickets’ and compelled to ‘mourn’: classicism at the service of Christian orthodoxy.
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