BIB_ID
413394
Accession number
MA 205.10
Creator
Evans, William, active 1797-1812, engraver.
Published
[London] : Published by Cadell & Davies, Strand, and the other Proprietors, 1807.
Credit line
Purchased, 1896.
Description
1 print : stipple engraving ; image: 101 x 81 mm ; sheet: 201 x 152 mm
Notes
Caption title.
Lettered below the image with the title and "Daughter of Samuel Cooper, Painter, & Mother of Alexander Pope, from an original Drawing of J. Richardson Senr., at Strawberry Hill."
"Possibly inaccurate attribution, instead noted on print that Mrs Pope was the neice of Samuel Cooper and the original drawing was by Boitard."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalog.
Engraved portrait by William Evans after Jonathan Richardson Sr., or, possibly, Louis Philippe Boitard, issued as an illustration to The poetical works of Alexander Pope: with the life of the author / by Samuel Johnson (London : Cadell & Davies, 1807).
Formerly housed with the manuscript of Johnson's Life of Pope and other items; for more information see main record for MA 205.
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
Lettered below the image with the title and "Daughter of Samuel Cooper, Painter, & Mother of Alexander Pope, from an original Drawing of J. Richardson Senr., at Strawberry Hill."
"Possibly inaccurate attribution, instead noted on print that Mrs Pope was the neice of Samuel Cooper and the original drawing was by Boitard."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalog.
Engraved portrait by William Evans after Jonathan Richardson Sr., or, possibly, Louis Philippe Boitard, issued as an illustration to The poetical works of Alexander Pope: with the life of the author / by Samuel Johnson (London : Cadell & Davies, 1807).
Formerly housed with the manuscript of Johnson's Life of Pope and other items; for more information see main record for MA 205.
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
Provenance
Purchased from the London dealer Sotheran, 1896.
Summary
Head-and-shoulders portrait of a middle-aged woman directed to right, looking slightly downwards, wearing a plain veil and simple gown which conceals her neck.
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