File:The Poetical Tom-Titt perch'd upon the Mount of Love, Being the Representation of a Merry Description in Mr Cibber's Letter to Mr Pope (BM 1868,0808.3706 1).jpg
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[edit]The Poetical Tom-Titt perch'd upon the Mount of Love, Being the Representation of a Merry Description in Mr Cibber's Letter to Mr Pope ( ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Title |
The Poetical Tom-Titt perch'd upon the Mount of Love, Being the Representation of a Merry Description in Mr Cibber's Letter to Mr Pope |
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Description |
English: Satire on Alexander Pope and his physical limitations. A sparsely furnished bedroom into which, on the left, the Earl of Warwick peers through a torn print pasted to the wall; he is watching Colley Cibber who has grasped the figure of Pope by the ankle, pulling him off a naked prostitute reclining on a bed. Cibber holds up the finger and thumb of his left hand to indicate Pope's diminutive size. Bed curtains hang from the ceiling and a print of a clergyman is pasted to the far wall. 31 July 1742
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Depicted people | Representation of: Alexander Pope | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Date |
1742 date QS:P571,+1742-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q6373 |
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Prints and Drawings |
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Accession number |
1868,0808.3706 |
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Notes |
The scene was described in "A letter from Mr Cibber to Mr Pope" (see BL, 641.h.5/4), a reply to Pope's attack on Cibber in the "Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot"; Cibber claimed to be saving Pope from the almost certain risk of contracting venereal disease. See also BM Satires 2572-2574 |
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Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-3706 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Permission (Reusing this file) |
© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date and time of digitizing | 12:15, 14 December 2007 |
File change date and time | 12:17, 14 December 2007 |
Date metadata was last modified | 12:17, 14 December 2007 |