A Rather Scurilous but Amusing Engraving of Alexander Pope

 

 

Alexander Pope.

Engraving 1733.

 

Frontispiece to Ingratitude: to Mr. Pope. Occasion'd by a Manuscript Handed About, under the Title of, Mr. Taste's Tour from the Land of Politeness, to that of Dulness and Scandal, &c. &c. (London: printed and sold by J. Dormer, 1733). A nobleman holds a struggling Alexander Pope at the hips while another urinates on his backside; a third stands to the left, laughing, while a fourth on the right observes. Pope cries out "Damn me if I don't put you all in the Dunciad!"

 

Image from the Huntington Library.

 

 

 

from - http://grubstreetproject.net/people/alexanderpope/images/1733_anon.php