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Alexander Pope
Public Domain

Johann Georg Wille and Sir Godfrey Kneller

Alexander Pope

1744

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Alexander Pope

1744

Physical Qualities Engraving, Sheet (trimmed within platemark): 84 x 162 mm. (3 5/16 x 6 3/8 in.) Image: 69 x 62 mm. (2 11/16 x 2 7/16 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1984.81.947
After a painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller.
T. Harrison Garrett, Baltimore, purchased 1885 (Lugt supp. 2435b); James L. Claghorn, Philadelphia (lugt supp. 555c).

Signed: 1

Inscribed: Recto: in image, upper left and right, in plate "Alexe. Pope."; in image, lower left and right, in plate "Peint en 1722 par Kneller, gravé par Will en 1745."; in image, lower right, in graphite "1712"

Markings: CM: Claghorn; Garrett

Artist

Johann Georg Wille

1714–1807

German, 1715-1808
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Artist

Sir Godfrey Kneller

1645–1722

English, born Germany, 1646-1723
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