Advice to a Painter

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Advice to a Painter

Poet(s)

Anacreon

Unsigned

Credits

Translator

Fawkes, Francis

Metadata research and editing

DVPP Project Team

Source

Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 2 11:283, 350, 2 June 1849.

First line

Best of painters, show thy art

Authorship

Unsigned

Print context

Quoted in prose contribution

Original language

Greek

Document status

Generated: The file was automatically generated from metadata in the project metadata database.

Notes and attribution research

Included in Songs and Poems on Costume (349-51). Translation is unsigned; attribution from Francis Fawkes, The Poetical Calendar, vol. 1, Dryden Leach, 1763, pp. 73-4, which identifies the poem as imitated from Anacreon’s Ode 28. (AC)

DVPP id

Numeric id of this poem in the DVPP collection: 6021

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Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Advice to a Painter