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Mr. Alexander Pope
Title
Mr. Alexander Pope [graphic].
Publication
London : Printed for Robt. Sayer, at No. 53 in Fleet Street, [between 1766 and 1774]
Physical Description
1 print : etching with engraving ; plate mark 21.9 x 18 cm, on sheet 22.2 x 18.5 cm
Medium
laid paper.
Notes
Title from engraved text beneath portrait at center of design.
Later state of a print published in 1731 by Henry Overton. Cf. No. 1880 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 2.
"Sayer acquired the stock of Henry Overton II c.1764. This print must have been published after 1766 when Sayer's address changed to No.53 Fleet Street, but before 1774 when he went into partnership with John Bennett."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2000,0930.45.
Provenance
Volume formerly owned by Horace Walpole, with his notes and bookplate present; sold at Strawberry Hill Sale, day v, lot 16, to Webb & Co., Leeds. Later owned by G. Wright, who extra-illustrated the volume in 1844, and W.J. Freer.
Summary
"Medley print with a portrait of and verses by Alexander Pope. In the centre, a portrait of Pope in informal dress, presented as if lying above other prints, anti-clockwise from right: a coin of Quenn Anne; an extract from "The Rape of the Lock" with an illustration of "The Fop"; an extract from "Windsor Forest" with a view of formal gardens; decorative scroll work, lettered, "[G A] Delin. Sculp. 1731"; two columns of verse headed "An Encomium on Mr Pope and his Poems by his Grace ye late Duke of Buckingham"; country people dancing around a may-pole. Beneath lie a sheet of music, a sheet printed in gothic letter; two sheets of engraved lettering only partly visible."--British Museum online catalogue.
Variant and related titles
Encomium on Mr. Pope and his poems / by his Grace [the] late Duke of Buckingham
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 25, 2022
Subjects
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Genre/Form
Portrait prints.
Medley prints.
Etchings - England - London - 1766.
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