Book ID: 27859 Original engraving of a portrait of Alexander Pope after a portrait by Arthur Pond, which is after the original by Jean Baptiste Van Loo. ALEXANDER POPE.

Original engraving of a portrait of Alexander Pope after a portrait by Arthur Pond, which is after the original by Jean Baptiste Van Loo.

Place and Imprint: Amsterdam: Engraved by J. Houbraken for J. & P. Knapton, London, 1747.
Bibliographical References: Wimsatt, Portraits of Alexander Pope, 66.15.
Condition: Two abrasions to the margins of the lower half of the image; two tears in the lower blank margin; a good example.
Book ID: 27859

Physical Description

46 x 31 cm (sheet), 35 x 22 cm (image).

Comments

One of many famous portraits of the great poet of the Augustan age, Alexander Pope. This truncated engraved version of Van Loo's oil portrait is surrounded by an elaborate allegorical scene, depicting Britannia with classical references. This engraving was made in Amsterdam for Thomas Birch's Heads of Illustrious Persons of Great Britain, volume 2.

Price: $300.00

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