Description |
1 image file : digital, JPEG. |
Series |
Alexander Pope anthology |
|
Alexander Pope anthology.
|
|
BiblioBoard Core module.
|
Note |
Original document: Painting. |
Summary |
This portrait shows Jacob Tonson the Elder, who employed Alexander Pope to produce a new editions of Shakespeare's works, which he owned the rights to. Pope is known to have "regularized" Shakespeare's meter, and even rewrote certain verses. |
Note |
GMD: electronic resource. |
Added Author |
Kneller, Godfrey, Sir, 1646-1723, artist.
|
|