Record ID:
413440
Accession number:
MA 205.28
Published:
19th century
Credit:
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.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Signed by G.P. Harding within the image at lower right.
Summary:
Bust of Alexander Pope, facing 3/4 to the left and crowned with laurels.
Medium:
brown ink over graphite on paper.
Dimensions:
16 x 11 11/16 inches (407 x 298 mm)
Provenance:
Purchased from the London dealer Sotheran, 1896.
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