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Alexander Pope's monument at Twickenham [print] / S. Wale delint. ; Ravenet sculpsit.

BIB_ID
413387
Accession number
MA 205.5
Creator
Ravenet, Simon François, 1706-1774, engraver.
Published
[London] : [publisher not identified], [1769]
Description
1 print : engraving ; image: 6 3/8 x 3 15/16 in (162 x 101 mm) ; sheet: 6 9/16 x 4 1/8 in (106 x 167 mm)
Notes
Engraving of Pope's monument at Twickenham Church, executed by S.F. Ravenet after Samuel Wale, and issued as a frontispiece plate in Owen Ruffhead's Life of Pope (London, 1769).
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.
Summary
Engraving shows a full-length of view of the wall monument created by sculptor Prince Hoare of Bath: a black obelisk with a roundel with a portrait of Pope in profile, with the inscription "Alexandro Pope / M.H. / Gulielmus episcopus glocestriensis / amicitae causa fac.cur. / MDCCLXI"; and in a panel below: "Poeta Loquitur. / For one who would not be buried / in Westminster Abbey / Heroes and Kings' your distance keep. / In peace let one poor Poet sleep; / Who never flatter'd folks like you: / Let Horace blush and Virgil too."
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