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British School
19th century
View from Pope's Grotto
ca. 1800-1810
Watercolor over pencil on paper.
203 x 267 mm
2015.43
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Item removed from the extra-illustrated copy of The poetical works of Alexander Pope, Esq. (PML 4236-4240), vol. 4 (PML 4239), p. 79.

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View from Alexander Pope's grotto toward Twickenham.

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See Maynard Mack, The Garden and the city : retirement and politics in the later poetry of Pope, 1731-1743 (1969), p. 74; and pl. 27, p. 288.
Alexander Pope's villa : views of Pope's villa, grotto and garden (Greater London Council, 1980), no. 69.

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