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Illustration to Alexander Pope's 'The Dunciad'

Maker

(artist)
1708-1776

(engraver)
1717-1810

Knapton, Linton, Tonson and Draper (publisher)

Title

Illustration to Alexander Pope's 'The Dunciad'

Date of Production

1751

Medium

Engraving

Dimensions

Height: 13.1 cm
Width: 8.3 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.4439

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Library, transfer, 1990

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

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Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Inscriptions

Inscription: Recto: lower centre margin, printed: Her ample Presence fills up all the Space / A Veil of Fogs dilates her awful Face / Dunciad Book I.

Inscription: Recto: upper left margin, printed: Plate XX.

Inscription: Recto: upper right margin, printed: Vol. V. facing p.3.

Inscription: Recto: upper left on mount, handwritten in pencil: 932/16(22)

Stamp: Recto: upper right on mount, stamped: WITT / LIBRARY

Inscription: Recto: lower left on mount, handwritten in pencil: Illustration to The Dunciad / Drawing related to this in Witt collection (Hayman, 2848)

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