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Description: | Painting depicting a right hand profile perspective bust portrait of poet Alexander Pope, looking up, with his head resting on his right hand, surrounded by a scrolling wreath of leaves and flowers. There is a praying figure of Heloise kneeling in a chapel on the right. There is also a standing female figure beneath a crescent moon on the left. The wreath and other foliage (such as the palm to the left) are depicted in dark green. The remainder of the painting is in light ochre or sepia tones.
Technique: tempera on canvas
medium: tempera
Alexander Pope by William Blake, 1800 (circa), (1885.8). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.104 | Go to resource |
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