Codice albumGBB-F-006011

Codice inventarioGBB-F-006011-0000

1742, GREAT BRITAIN: The british poet ALEXANDER POPE (1688-1744). Engraving portraingthe british actor and dramatist Colley Cibber (1671-1757) seizing Alexander Pope (1688-1744) by one leg in a brothel. Engraving and etching by Hubert Gravelot titled:" And has not Sawney too his Lord and whore". Pope was famous for his use of the heroic couplet, he is the second-most frequently quoted writer in" The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations", after William Shakespeare

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