Paint last the king and a dead shade of night
- DMI number:
- 8938
- First Line:
- Paint last the king and a dead shade of night
- Last Line:
- Poetic picture painted poetry
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Topical satire, Extract / snippet from longer work, Advice to a Painter poems, and Couplet
- Themes:
- Art / painting, High society / the court, History, Politics, Supernatural, The monarchy (heads of state)[Charles II], Visions, and War
- Author:
- Andrew Marvell
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from The Last Instructions to a Painter. In Smith (2007): 362-396.
- Title:
- Occasional poems on the late Dutch war [T102884]
- Page No(s):
- pp.16-17
- Poem Title:
- The last Instructions to a Painter, about the Dutch Wars, 1667.
- Attribution:
- By A. Marvel, Esq;
- Attributed To:
- Andrew Marvell
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