BIB_ID
127689
Accession number
MA 352
Creator
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.
Display Date
[1731]
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (2 pages), unbound ; 30.2 cm
Notes
Formerly bound in red morocco gilt by Riviere & Son for S.M. Samuel in 1803; portions of the upper and lower covers have been retained and are housed with the manuscript.
Housed with an autograph manuscript of Pope's "Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot" (MA 352.1) and two facsimile pages of a fragment of this poem that are housed at The Huntington Library (HM 6006).
Housed with the printed version of this poem, London, 1731.
Housed with a hand-colored mezzotint portrait of Pope.
Housed with an autograph manuscript of Pope's "Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot" (MA 352.1) and two facsimile pages of a fragment of this poem that are housed at The Huntington Library (HM 6006).
Housed with the printed version of this poem, London, 1731.
Housed with a hand-colored mezzotint portrait of Pope.
Inscriptions/Markings
Watermark: Circle with crown over letters "GR" and leaves inside.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from F.T. Sabin in 1909; from the collections of Dr. Charles Chauncey and S.M. Samuel.
Summary
Written on the recto and versos of one leaf, with extensive revisions; being part of an early draft of the poem, which in this form constitutes less than a third of the final printed version.
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