Mr. Alexander Pope [graphic].

Description

Title: Mr. Alexander Pope [graphic].
Alternative Title: Encomium on Mr. Pope and his poems / by his Grace [the] late Duke of Buckingham
Contributor: Buckingham, John Sheffield, Duke of, 1647-1721.
Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794, publisher.
Published / Created: [between 1766 and 1774]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed for Robt. Sayer, at No. 53 in Fleet Street
Abstract: "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
Description: 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.
Mounted to 29 x 22 cm.
Bound in opposite page 11 in an extra-illustrated copy of: Nichols, J. Bibliographical and literary anecdotes by William Bowyer ...
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. B. Halliday to Mr. A.N.L. Munby for W.S. Lewis; October 1949.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 21.9 x 18 cm, on sheet 22.2 x 18.5 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Collection Information

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: 49 3349
Collection Title: Opposite page 11. Bibliographical and literary anecdotes by William Bowyer, printer, F. S. A., and of many of his learned friends.
Collection / Other Creator: Nichols, John, 1745-1826.
Collection Date: London : Printed by and for the author, 1782.