Mr. Pope [graphic]

Description

Title: Mr. Pope [graphic]
Alternative Title: Alexander Pope
Creator: Vertue, George, 1684-1756, printmaker
Contributor: Jervas, Charles, approximately 1675-1739, artist.
Published / Created: [1717]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: Portrait of Alexander Pope; half length, to the left, looking at viewer, his right hand on body; in oval frame of oak leaves, on pedestal
Description: Title engraved below image.
The print was used as the frontispiece to the first collected volume of Pope's Works in 1717.
Date from British Museum online catalogue.
After the portrait by Charles Jervas.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Formerly laid in volume 1 of Horace Walpole's copy of: Works of Mr. Alexander Pope (London : Printed by W. Bowyer for B. Lintot, 1717-1735). Now unfolded and housed separately in a solander box. See volume 1: 49 320.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 35.8 x 26 cm
Language: English

Genre: Portrait prints
Engravings England London 1717
Material: engraving ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744,
Subjects: Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744
England > London > 1717
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

Access: Public
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