Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Jonathan Richardson the Elder, 1667–1745, British
Title:
Alexander Pope
Date:
1738
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
39 x 33 inches (99.1 x 83.8 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1973.1.49
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
costume | forest | letter | portrait | landscape | obelisk | man | paper | manuscript | poet
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Fame and Friendship : Pope , Roubiliac , and the Eighteenth-Century Portrait Bust (Yale Center for British Art, 2014-02-20 - 2014-05-19)

The World of Alexander Pope (Yale Center for British Art, 1988-04-08 - 1988-05-29)

The Early Georgian Landscape Garden (Yale Center for British Art, 1983-04-20 - 1983-06-26)

View of Pope's Villa (Kenwood House, 1980-07-19 - 1980-09-28)
Publications:
Morris R. Brownell, Alexander Pope's villa : views of Pope's villa, grotto and garden : a microcosm of English landscape, Greater London Council, London, 1980, p. 2, no. 1, NA7589 .T8 A54 + Oversize (YCBA)

David R. Coffin, The English garden : meditation and memorial, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1994, p. 203, fig. 81, SB457.6 .C64 1994 (YCBA)

Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 188-189, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)

Fame & friendship, Pope, Roubiliac, and the portrait bust in eighteenth-century Britain , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, 2014, p. 23, V 2515 (YCBA)

John Dixon Hunt, Ut pictura poesis, ut pictura hortus, and the picturesque, Word & Image, vol. 1, January-March 1985, pp. 95-97, fig. 5, PN53 .W67 (YCBA)

Peter Martin, Pursuing innocent pleasures : the gardening world of Alexander Pope, Archon Books, Hamden, CT, 1984, frontispiece, PR3637 .A35 M3 1984 (YCBA)

William K. Wimsatt, The Portraits of Alexander Pope, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1965, p. 145, PR3633 W55 OVERSIZE (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:147