[Twickenham Church taken from Pope's garden] [art original].

Description

Title: [Twickenham Church taken from Pope's garden] [art original].
Creator: Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744, artist
Published / Created: [not after 1744]
Publication Place: England
Description: Title devised by curator.
Devised title and artist attribution based on Horace Walpole's notes on facing leaf: This book belonged to Mr. Pope, and the drawing is by him. Horace Walpole, 1766. It is a view of Twickenham Church from his own garden.
Date of production based on artist's death date.
Drawn on front flyleaf in volume 1 of Alexander Pope's copy of: Homeri opera quae extant omnia. Amstelaedami : Ex officina Wetsteniana, MDCCVII [1707].
Provenance: Formerly owned by Alexander Pope, the volumes given to him by Dr. Pellet in 1714. Later owned by Horace Walpole, with his bookplate and a note in his hand dated 1766. Bought at Strawberry Hill sale by W.H. Miller; sold at Sotheby's, 29-30 March 1971, (Christie-Miller sale), lot 288A, to Seven Gables for W.S. Lewis.
Extent: 1 drawing : image 6.1 x 12.7 cm, on sheet 7.3 x 13.7 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English