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- Published / Created:
- [between 1766 and 1774]
- Call Number:
- 49 3349
- Collection Title:
- Opposite page 11. Bibliographical and literary anecdotes by William Bowyer, printer, F. S. A., and
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- 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
- Alternative Title:
- Encomium on Mr. Pope and his poems / by his Grace [the] late Duke of Buckingham
- 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., and Bound in opposite page 11 in an extra-illustrated copy of: Nichols, J. Bibliographical and literary anecdotes by William Bowyer ...
- Publisher:
- Printed for Robt. Sayer, at No. 53 in Fleet Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- England.
- Subject (Name):
- Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744,, Anne, Queen of Great Britain, 1665-1714,, and Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.
- Subject (Topic):
- Authors, British, Poets, Coins, Gardens, May poles, and Dance
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Mr. Alexander Pope [graphic].
