- Title:
- Alexander Pope
- Object name(s):
- Picture
- Collection:
- Senate House Library
- Comments:
- Portrait after Sir Godfrey Kneller (1646-1723). The poet Pope (1688-1744) is also represented in the University of London by first editions of some single poems, including The Rape of the Lock and The Dunciad, and by other early editions in Senate House Library.
- Conservation note:
- conserved by Painting Conservation Studio, 2016 (see conservation report)
- Dimension:
- 74 x 62 cm (ca)
- Material:
- oil on canvas
- Normal location:
- Senate House
- Object history note:
- Gift, Sir Louis Sterling (1951, from Christies, 29 June 1951). Previously: Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield; Henry Lascelles, later 6th Earl of Harewood (1918; from house sale, Leedam and Harrison, 15-25 July 1918.
- Object name:
- Picture
- Object number:
- PO-0131
- Object production date:
- 18th cent.
- Object production person:
- English school, 18th century
- Person's association:
- Artist
- Person's birth date:
- 1700-1800
- Person's nationality:
- English
- Responsible department/section:
- Senate House Lib.
- User's reference:
- D. Piper, 'The Chesterfield House Library Portraits', in R. Wellek and A. Ribeiro (ed.), Evidence in Literary Scholarship (Oxford, 1979)
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/63bfa625-797a-334c-83aa-eed6fba1cdbe
Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/63bfa625-797a-334c-83aa-eed6fba1cdbe, Senate House Library, CC BY-NC
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