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The novel was received with rapturous enthusiasm and inspired the creation of paintings and prints based on scenes from the book, but also small personal items such as brooches, snuff boxes, fan mounts and buckles for belt, shoe or knee breeches. This plaque would have been set into a buckle, possibly with cut steel mounts. \n\nThe Bourbonnais Shepherd, often shown as a counterpart to Poor Maria,  makes only a passing appearance in the text, described as \"the roughest peasant who traverses the bleakest mountain\", but he provides a useful foil to the lovelorn and pitiable Maria. Shepherd and shepherdess figures appealed to a romantic sensibility, acting as totems of a simpler, picturesque life. 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