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Unrequited love
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A young woman sits and listens with scorn to a man's declarations of love. Mezzotint by James Wilson after C. Troost.
Troost, Cornelis, 1697-1750.Date: 1700-1799Reference: 28055i- Pictures
Clytie abandoned by the sun god is turned into a sunflower. Engraving by G. Duchange after N. Bertin.
Bertin, Nicolas, 1668-1736Date: [not after 1757]Reference: 2500255i
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A Romany fortune-teller is reading the palm of a young woman suffering unrequited love; two other Romany women are leaning over a fence and children are sitting around a fire. Etching by P.W. Tomkins after H.W. Bunbury, 1791.
Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811.Date: 1791Reference: 563059i
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An episode in The vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith: Dr Primrose finding his daughter Olivia, who has been jilted by Squire Thornhill. Coloured engraving by F. Bartolozzi after J.H. Ramberg.
Ramberg, Johann Heinrich, 1763-1840.Date: August 1 1777Reference: 28693i