--shoot Folly as it flies. And catch manners living as they rise. Pope [graphic]

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Title: --shoot Folly as it flies. And catch manners living as they rise. Pope [graphic]
Creator: Ruotte, Louis Charles, 1754-1806, printmaker
Contributor: Loutherbourg, Philippe-Jacques de, 1740-1812, artist.
Published / Created: [ca. 1770?]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: Title from caption engraved below image, a quote from Alexander Pope's Essay on man, Epistle i.1.8-9.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Personifications: Folly -- Fool's cap -- Musical instruments: guitar -- Wigs -- Wig-stands -- Crowns -- Gambling: playing cards -- Cornucopias -- Moon -- Masks -- Hats -- Clouds -- Vehicles: coach.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. iii.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 21.7 x 15.4 cm, on sheet 23 x 17 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1770
Stipple engravings England London 1770
Material: stipple engraving ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.
Subjects: Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744
England > 1770
England > London > 1770

Access: Public
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