BIB_ID
413440
Accession number
MA 205.28
Creator
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853.
Published
19th century
Credit line
Purchased, 1896.
Description
1 drawing.
Notes
Title supplied by cataloger; two lines of verse below image read: Your friend but gives you the bay you had before / Friendship wou'd fain, but friendship can no more.
Formerly housed with the manuscript of Samuel Johnson's Life of Pope; for more information see main record for MA 205.
At foot of sheet: From a sketch by J. Richardson, in the Strawberry-Hill Collection.
Formerly housed with the manuscript of Samuel Johnson's Life of Pope; for more information see main record for MA 205.
At foot of sheet: From a sketch by J. Richardson, in the Strawberry-Hill Collection.
16 x 11 11/16 inches (407 x 298 mm)
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed by G.P. Harding within the image at lower right.
Provenance
Purchased from the London dealer Sotheran, 1896.
Summary
Bust of Alexander Pope, facing 3/4 to the left and crowned with laurels.
Medium
brown ink over graphite on paper.
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