[Pope's Rape of the lock] [graphic]

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Title: [Pope's Rape of the lock] [graphic]
Alternative Title: Cruelty in perfection
Contributor: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
Published / Created: [1794]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: R. Faulder and J. Egerton
Abstract: Two images. On the top is an illustration from Pope's Rape of the lock, canto IV, II, 121 ff.: Sir Plume dispatched by Belinda demands her stolen lock of hair from the Baron. Below, a second image is a reversed copy after Hogarth's Cruelty in perfection: the night watchmen arrest Tom Nero, a highwayman, for the murder of his pregnant lover, Ann Gill, who lies dying in the arms of one of the watch. To the right, is a pillory
Description: Titles devised by cataloger.
Plate from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth. London : Published by R. Faulder, New Bond Street; and J. Egerton, 1794, vol. 1, opposite p. 8*.
Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 244.
Provenance: Gift of Joseph Verner Reed (Yale 1926) to the Yale Library, 1958. Portions were transferred to Lewis Walpole Library 1960. For other items from this gift refer to Beinecke Library's GEN MSS 1000.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 74 x 95 mm
Language: English

Genre: Illustrations
Etchings England London 1794
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.
Subjects: Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744 > Illustrations
England > London > 1794

Access: Public
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