"A game of draughts interrupted; four men at a table, on the left, Alexander Pope (?) standing with a paper in his right hand, at centre, the players (one of whom is said to be Dr. John Arbuthnot) in full-bottomed powdered wigs, to right, a man said to be Count Viviani in a long curling wig and cloak, his left hand resting on a stick; after a drawing formerly attributed to Hogarth"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Dr. Arbuthnot. Count Viviani
Description:
Title from text in image. Series title below image; plate number in upper right corner., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2, 1702.
Publisher:
Samuel Ireland?
Subject (Name):
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744., Arbuthnot, John, 1667-1735., and Viviani, Count.
A game of draughts ended; four men at a table, the figure on left (Dr Garth) is in full bottom powdered wig, standing, with cane on table, his three-cornered hat beside him, the players, seated opposite each other in the centre, and to right, a figure (Pope) standing with his left hand raised; after a drawing formerly attributed to Hogarth
Alternative Title:
Dr. Garth. Pope
Description:
Title from text below image; plate number in upper right corner., Reissue with plate no. re-engraved to '4'., Plate in: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth. vol.1, p. 38., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at top., and Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2, 1701.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Garth, Samuel, Sir, 1661-1719. and Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.
A game of draughts ended; four men at a table, the figure on left (Dr Garth) is in full bottom powdered wig, standing, with cane on table, his three-cornered hat beside him, the players, seated opposite each other in the centre, and to right, a figure (Pope) standing with his left hand raised; after a drawing formerly attributed to Hogarth
Alternative Title:
Dr. Garth. Pope
Description:
Title from text below image; plate number in upper right corner., Reissue with plate no. re-engraved to '4'., Plate in: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth. vol.1, p. 38., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at top., Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2, 1701., and On page 232 in volume 3. Printed in brownish ink on sheet trimmed to: 15.3 x 20.4 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Garth, Samuel, Sir, 1661-1719. and Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.
"Men preparing to bathe in a canal, the feet of a diver visible; bridge at right and a row of houses behind."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from quotation below the image., Publisher, date and place from book for which this plate was engraved., Signed in lower right corner below title: Dunciad. Book II., Sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of instructions to the binder., Frontispiece from: The works of Alexander Pope, vol. v. London : Printed for J. and P. Knapton, 1751., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Commentary on The Dunciad in an unknown contemporary hand on verso; parts of text lacking.
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
"A middle-aged woman shown head and shoulders directed to right, looking slightly downwards, wearing a plain veil and simple gown which conceals her neck."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted on page 68 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Pope, Edith, 1642-1733,, Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744., Cooper, Samuel, 1609-1672., and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
James Osborn classifies this MS as "F" of the Spence MSS - see p. xlii of Joseph Spence. Observations, Anecdotes, and Characters of Books and Men. and (Ed. by James M. Osborn. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1966).
Subject (Name):
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744. and Spence, Joseph, 1699-1768.
Portrait head of a middle-aged woman, directed to right, looking slightly downwards; wearing a plain veil and a gown which conceals her neck
Alternative Title:
Mrs. Pope
Description:
Title from note in pencil in lower left; alternative title from note in pencil in lower right., Signed with the initial "R." in lower right corner; attribution to Jonathan Richardson the Elder from local catalog card., Date written in ink following title., Mounted on page 90 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Name):
Pope, Edith, 1642-1733, and Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.
