FDA-E.3364-2026
Parts
Object number
FDA-E.3364-2026
Object type
Identification
Title
Mrs Pope
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Description
Bust-length, black & white, printed portrait of a seated elderly woman wearing a loose cloth cowl/hood over her head; the drapery is loosely sketched
Description
Content (person)
Pope, Edith, 1642 - 1733 (Sitter)
Dimensions
height (actual size): 313mm
width (actual size): 239mm
width (actual size): 239mm
Inscription
Lettered below image: 'Engraved by W. Evans / MRS POPE / Daughter of Samuel Cooper, Painter; / and Mother of Alexander Pope. / From an original Drawing by J. Richardson Sen. at Strawberry Hill / Published by Cadell & Davies, Strand and the other Propietors, May 1 1807'
Materials & techniques note
Stipple engraving
Production
Person
Organisation
Cadell & Davies (Publisher)
Date
01/05/1807
History and association
Object history note
Provenance: Collection of Abdalla Mirghani; by whom presented to Eton College in 2024
