Below caption title at foot: "In the possession of Mr Arthur Pond."
Engraving executed in Amsterdam by Jacobus Houbraken after a painting by Arthur Pond; print issued in Thomas Birch's: The heads of illustrious persons of Great Britain, engraved by Mr Houbraken and by Mr Vertue (London : J. & P. Knapton, 1743-1752).
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.
Portrait of Alexander Pope, seated half-length slightly to right, resting on his left arm on a table, looking to left, wearing open jacket and neckerchief, in an ornamental oval frames surmounted wings, lyre, torch, and crown of laurels; with theatrical attributes on a pedestal below portrait and an allegorical scene on the pedestal.