Taste, or, Burlington Gate [print].
Title from item and BM online catalog.
Formerly attributed to William Hogarth.
Satire on Alexander Pope's "Epistle to Burlington" in which he praises Lord Burlington's architectural taste.
Lettered on the pediment of the gateway, "Taste", and with other lettering within image; a key below, begins, "A. P--pe, a Plasterer ...".
A re-engraving of the print originally advertised in the Daily Journal on 5 January 1731/2; in this version, Pope is shown without a wig and with his face in profile and the sky is ruled with horizontal lines and lacks the curved lines representing clouds in earlier versions. Cf. Stephens.
Mounted as item 156 into an album of collected prints, broadsides, drawings, and miscellaneous single sheet items, assembled by former owner Joseph Ames and entitled "Emblematical and satirical prints on persons and professions" (PML 145850).
Burlington Gate
Print shows the gate of Burlington House, Piccadilly, surmounted by statues of William Kent, Raphael and Michelangelo, being whitewashed by a plasterer (Pope) standing on scaffolding and bespattering any body that comes in his way, including the Duke of Chandos, who, as he gets out of his coach, receives a full shower upon his head.