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Unrequited love

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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.
  • A young woman sits and listens with scorn to a man's declarations of love. Mezzotint by James Wilson after C. Troost.
  • 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.
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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: 1700-1799 | Reference: 28055i
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    Clytie abandoned by the sun god is turned into a sunflower. Engraving by G. Duchange after N. Bertin.

    Bertin, Nicolas, 1668-1736 | Date: [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: 1791 | Reference: 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 1777 | Reference: 28693i
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    Some of the best advice my friends have given me.

    @tinyvictorieszine | Date: [201-?]
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