print
- Museum number
- 1841,1211.148
- Title
- Series: Birch's Heads
- Description
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Portrait of Alexander Pope, seated half-length slightly to right, resting on his left arm on a table, looking to left, wearing open jacket and neckerchief; in an ornamental oval with wings above; theatrical attributes on a pedestal below portrait; allegorical scene on the pedestal; state with publisher's address; after Arthur Pond. 1747
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1747
- Dimensions
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Height: 353 millimetres
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Width: 217 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For comment on the series see also 1844,0511.13. For impressions of an ealier state see 1868,0822.6755, 1977,U.989 and 1948,0315.11.101.
Although lettered as after a painting by Arthur Pond, a similar portrait is by Jean-Baptiste Van Loo, in the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven. This plate was engraved in Amsterdam.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: The Heads of Illustrious Persons of Great Britain, Engraved by Mr Houbraken and by Mr Vertue (London, 1743-1752)
- Acquisition date
- 1841
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1841,1211.148
