Yale Center for British Art

Creator:: Studio of Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1646–1723, German, active in Britain (from 1676)
Title:: Alexander Pope Profile, Crowned with Ivy
Date:: ca. 1721
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 28 1/4 x 23 inches (71.8 x 58.4 cm)
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Margaret Wimsatt in memory of William Kurtz Wimsatt Jr.
Copyright Status:: Public Domain
Accession Number:: B1991.33
Classification:: Paintings
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:: tondo | portrait | man | snake | robe | crown (costume component) | inspiration | frame (furnishing) | poet | ivy
Currently On View:: Not on view
Exhibition History:: Fame and Friendship : Pope , Roubiliac , and the Eighteenth-Century Portrait Bust (Yale Center for British Art, 2014-02-20 - 2014-05-19)
The World of Alexander Pope (Yale Center for British Art, 1988-04-08 - 1988-05-29)
Publications:: Joanna Marschner, Enlightened Princesses : Caroline, Augusta, Charlotte, and the Shaping of the Modern World, Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn, 2017, p. 314, fig. 17.13, NX543 +.E55 2017 Oversize (YCBA)
William K. Wimsatt, The Portraits of Alexander Pope, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1965, pp. 52,54-57, no. 6.2-6.6, PR3633 W55 OVERSIZE (YCBA)
Link:: https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:1340