Portrait of the poet Andrew Marvell (IMAGE)

University of Cambridge

Portrait of the poet Andrew Marvell

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Portrait of the seventeenth-century poet Andrew Marvell who used mowing – with a scythe – to comment on the violence of the English Civil War. Painting attributed to Godfrey Kneller (1646 – 1723).

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© Trinity College, University of Cambridge

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