Thenot and Colinet eat their evening meal

Two men, one elderly and bearded and the other younger, sit at a long wooden table eating from bowls. The interior is rendered with heavy, textured lines characteristic of white-line wood engraving, creating a sense of low light. Outside the open door on the left, a sliver of a crescent moon and a single star are visible in the dark sky.

This work is part of Blake's influential illustrations for Robert Thornton’s 'Pastorals of Virgil,' which revitalized the pastoral genre as a site of visionary spiritual innocence. Blake's interpretation of the pastoral reflects his Neoplatonic and Gnostic-influenced worldview, where the simplicity of rural life serves as a veil for a deeper, poetic reality untouched by industrial materialism.