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1.
Mr. Pope [graphic]

Creator:
Vertue, George, 1684-1756, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1717]
Call Number:
Folio 49 320
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Portrait of Alexander Pope; half length, to the left, looking at viewer, his right hand on body; in oval frame of oak leaves, on pedestal
Alternative Title:
Alexander Pope
Description:
Title engraved below image., The print was used as the frontispiece to the first collected volume of Pope's Works in 1717., Date from British Museum online catalogue., After the portrait by Charles Jervas., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Formerly laid in volume 1 of Horace Walpole's copy of: Works of Mr. Alexander Pope (London : Printed by W. Bowyer for B. Lintot, 1717-1735). Now unfolded and housed separately in a solander box. See volume 1: 49 320.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744,
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Mr. Pope [graphic]

2.
[Portrait of Alexander Pope] [art original].

Creator:
Vanloo, Jean-Baptiste, 1684-1745, artist
Published / Created:
[18th century?]
Call Number:
LWL Ptg. 122 Framed, on view in New Library
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
The famous author Alexander Pope is depicted in three-quarter length. He is seated at a desk in a leather armchair. He turns his glance to his proper left. His right arm supports his wigged head. His elbow rests on a volume with an eligible title on the spine. In his left hand holds some leaves of manuscript. He wears a brown coat with ruffled shirt sleeves and cravat. On the desk is a silver ink well with quill and some scattered papers
Description:
Title from 2005 Christie's appraisal. and Inscription in upper left of image: Alexr. Pope.
Subject (Name):
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744,
Subject (Topic):
Authors and British
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [Portrait of Alexander Pope] [art original].

3.
Alex. Pope [graphic]

Creator:
Stow, James, approximately 1770- printmaker
Published / Created:
May 12, 1794.
Call Number:
Folio 724 812 B68
Collection Title:
Plate [190] Plate in: Series of one hundred and ninety-six engravings, (in the line manner) by the
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of the poet Alexander Pope; half length, seated by table, resting head in left hand, looking to the left; wearing wig, jacket and cravat; after Pond; in rectangular frame with classical bust on medallion with branches below; illustration to Bowyer's edition of Hume's 'History of England'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Alexander Pope and Portrait of Alexander Pope
Description:
Title from text above image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Plate [190] in a volume bound to 50 cm.
Publisher:
Published by R. Bowyer, Historic Gallery
Subject (Name):
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744,
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Alex. Pope [graphic]

4.
Observations, anecdotes, & characters of books and men. Collected from conversation, [1749-1751].

Creator:
Spence, Joseph, 1699-1768
Call Number:
Osborn fc113
Image Count:
214
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Autograph MS with corrections and additions
Description:
James Osborn classifies this MS as "F" of the Spence MSS - see p. xlii of Joseph Spence. Observations, Anecdotes, and Characters of Books and Men. and (Ed. by James M. Osborn. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1966).
Subject (Name):
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744. and Spence, Joseph, 1699-1768.
Subject (Topic):
Authors, English and Literature
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Observations, anecdotes, & characters of books and men. Collected from conversation, [1749-1751].

5.
--shoot Folly as it flies. And catch manners living as they rise. Pope [graphic]

Creator:
Ruotte, Louis Charles, 1754-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[ca. 1770?]
Call Number:
770.00.00.53
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
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., and 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.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > --shoot Folly as it flies. And catch manners living as they rise. Pope [graphic]

6.
[Cromwell Mortimer] [graphic]

Creator:
Rigaud, Jacques, 1681-1754, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1745?]
Call Number:
745.00.00.04 Impression 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A man sits at a table in his library leaning his head on his hand as he contemplates the sheets of paper before him. An owl sits on the table with a ink well suspended from his mouth and a quill resting in the well. A demon behind the reader holds in his left hand a staff with a jester's head (personification of folly?) and in his right a very large feather. On the scholar's feet a strewn books with words on their spines: Borrow; Boyle; Newton; Radclife; Friend; Mead, etc. Temporary local subject terms: The pictures on the wall are portraits labelled 'Cromwell' and 'Mortimer' but depict Olver Cromwell and Mortimer, Earl of March
Description:
Title and publication date from British Museum catalogue., Two lines of verse above image: Here folly, ignorance and pride combine, to prove him of the true Duncean line., Six lines of quotation below image: Studious he sate, with all his books around, sinking from thought to thought a vast profound ..., Truman's notes about the print are shelved as: LWL Mss Group 1 File 8., and Mounted to 32 x 39 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Mortimer, Cromwell, -1752 and Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.
Subject (Topic):
Libraries (Rooms & spaces), Owls, Quacks, and Demons
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [Cromwell Mortimer] [graphic]

7.
[Portrait of Alexander Pope] [graphic]

Creator:
Richardson, Jonathan, 1694-1771, printmaker
Published / Created:
[between 1730 and 1740]
Call Number:
Folio 33 30 Copy 4
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Portrait head of Alexander Pope in profile to right; in a circle
Alternative Title:
Amicitiae causa
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1850,0810.37., and Mounted on page 74 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of Horace Walpole's: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744,
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [Portrait of Alexander Pope] [graphic]

8.
A. Pope [art original]

Creator:
Richardson, Jonathan, 1665-1745, artist
Published / Created:
July 7, 1736.
Call Number:
Folio 33 30 Copy 11
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Portrait head of Alexander Pope, in profile to the left, looking forward; his head uncovered, hair cropped short
Alternative Title:
Alexander Pope
Description:
Title from note in pencil in lower left., Signed with the initial "R." in lower right corner; attribution to Jonathan Richardson the Elder from local catalog card., Date written in pencil following title., Mounted on page 90 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Name):
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744,
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A. Pope [art original]

9.
Pope's mother, done by candle light [art original]

Creator:
Richardson, Jonathan, 1665-1745, artist
Published / Created:
1709.
Call Number:
Folio 33 30 Copy 11
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Portrait head of a middle-aged woman, directed to right, looking slightly downwards; wearing a plain veil and a gown which conceals her neck
Alternative Title:
Mrs. Pope
Description:
Title from note in pencil in lower left; alternative title from note in pencil in lower right., Signed with the initial "R." in lower right corner; attribution to Jonathan Richardson the Elder from local catalog card., Date written in ink following title., Mounted on page 90 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Name):
Pope, Edith, 1642-1733, and Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Pope's mother, done by candle light [art original]

10.
[Twickenham Church taken from Pope's garden] [art original].

Creator:
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1744]
Call Number:
49 2399
Collection Title:
Front flyleaf. Homeri opera quae extant omnia.
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title devised by curator., Devised title and artist attribution based on Horace Walpole's notes on facing leaf: This book belonged to Mr. Pope, and the drawing is by him. Horace Walpole, 1766. It is a view of Twickenham Church from his own garden., Date of production based on artist's death date., and Drawn on front flyleaf in volume 1 of Alexander Pope's copy of: Homeri opera quae extant omnia. Amstelaedami : Ex officina Wetsteniana, MDCCVII [1707].
Subject (Geographic):
Twickenham (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Buildings, structures, etc and Churches
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [Twickenham Church taken from Pope's garden] [art original].

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