print
- Museum number
- 1842,0806.402.b
- Description
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Copy of scene from Pope, 'The Rape of the Lock', canto IV; Sir Plume approaches the Baron, at left, to demand the lock of Belinda's hair, a group of women gathered at a table behind at right, exercised by the affront; impression from an engraved box lid; outlines only, after Hogarth. 1786
Etching
- Production date
- 1786
- Dimensions
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Height: 142 millimetres (cut)
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Width: 210 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See Cc,1.229 and 1875,0213.351 for the whole plate.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: The Rape of the Lock
- Acquisition date
- 1842
- Acquisition notes
- 1842,0608.373 to 409 were purchased directly by the BM at the sale of Horace Walpole's collection at Strawberry Hill. The hammer price of the 17 lots was £165 10s 6d, which with the addition of 5% auction tax became £174 2s 3d. The price given here for each lot is the hammer price.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1842,0806.402.b
