[Frontispiece to An Essay on man] [art original]

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Title: [Frontispiece to An Essay on man] [art original]
Alternative Title: Herein the rich, the honour'd, fam'd, and great, see the false scale of happiness compleat
Contributor: Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744, designer.
Published / Created: [not after 1744]
Publication Place: England
Description: Title devised by curator.
Inscription in ink at bottom of mounting sheet, in Alexander Pope's hand: Herein the rich, the honour'd, fam'd, and great, see the false scale of happiness compleat.
Statements of responsibiliy written in ink below image, in Alexander Pope's hand; the artist "I.M." is unidentified.
Date of production based on death date of Alexander Pope, whose annotations are present on mounting sheet.
Mounting sheet includes a wash-line border with a line of gold paint surrounding the drawing.
Mounted as the frontispiece in a copy of Alexander Pope's An Essay on man.
Provenance: Sold at Sotheby's, 29 June 1927, to Maggs for W.S. Lewis (advertised as Horace Walpole's copy). Given by W.S. Lewis to A.E. Newton, December 1935. Purchased at Parke-Bernet, October 1941 (A.E. Newton sale, final portion), by Brick Row for W.S. Lewis.
Extent: 1 drawing : sheet 12.7 x 7.5 cm, inlaid to 17.7 x 11.1 cm
Language: English

Genre: Frontispieces
Ink drawings
Wash drawings
Material: sepia ink wash ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.
Subjects: Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744 > Ms. notes
Newton, A. Edward (Alfred Edward), 1864-1940 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: Frontispiece to An Essay on Man. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.