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The Distrest Poet.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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The Distrest Poet.
Description
English: An untidy garret with a man in a dressing-gown working on a poem entitled 'Riches a Poem' while his wife is confronted by a milkmaid with a lengthy tally who demands payment; a baby in bed is crying; a dog eats meat from a plate on a chair; behind the poet's head is a map titled 'A View of the Gold mines of Peru'. 1737, this state published 1740
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Depicted people Associated with: Alexander Pope
Date 1737
date QS:P571,+1737-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
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Height: 358 millimetres
Width: 408 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
S,2.54
Notes In this later state the satirical print of Pope and Curll is replaced by the map of Peru, a probable reference to speculative schemes such as the South Sea Bubble, for which see Paulson 43. The 'Distressed Poet' was revised to make a companion for the 'Enraged Musician (Paulson 152, published November 1741) and 'a Third on Painting', see advertisement, London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 24th November 1740 (Paulson, p. 110).
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_S-2-54
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