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Portrait of Alexander Pope
Title
[Portrait of Alexander Pope] [art original].
Publication
[England], [circa 1736?]
Physical Description
1 drawing : pastel ; oval 28.8 x 21.6 cm, in gilt frame 45.5 x 39 cm
Notes
Title devised by curator.
Dated based on known year in which Pope sat for Kneller.
Numerous labels verso frame.
With label on verso: J. Palser, printseller, dealer in works of fine art, andc. 9 King Street, Covent Garden, W.C. Late 188 Strand.
Text from the 1842 Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole: Four drawings ... [a portrait of] Mr. Pope by ditto [John Richardson, Senior] ...
Exhibited: "Alexander Pope and His World" at the Yale Center for British Art. New Haven, CT. 8 April 1988-29 May 1988.
Provenance
Formerly owned by Horace Walpole. 1842, May 19, Strawberry Hill Sale, Day 22, lot 72 (four drawings) bt ---Young Esq, Pope's Villa, £4.10.0; 1883, Waldegrave Sale, lot 978; 1938, A.G. Tite, London, bt I.K. Fletcher, London; 1938, July 30, I.K. Fletcher, bt W.S. Lewis; The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Summary
Half-length portrait of Alexander Pope, full face with his right hand on his brow. After Sir Godfrey Kneller. From 1774 Description: Side opposite the window ... Mr. Pope himself; ditto [by John Richardson, senior]. Formerly hung in the Red Chamber at Strawberry Hill
Variant and related titles
Title from verso of board: Alexander Pope drawn by Richardson
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 21, 2013
References
Wimsatt, W.K. Portraits of Alexander Pope. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965, pl. 7.6.
Subjects
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Genre/Form
Portrait drawings.
Drawing.
Pastels (Visual works)
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