[Illustration to Pope's Canto 4.]
Lud. Du Guernier inv. C. Du Bosc sculp. [n.d. c.1714.] Etching. 145 x 84mm (5¾ x 3¼"). The engraving accompanying canto 4 shows Belinda, sitting in the middle, resting her head on her hand, in the Cave of Spleen, the poems analogue for the underworld that heroes of epics frequently visit. Allegorical figures of Affectation and Ill-Nature flank her. Illustration to Canto41 in Pope's 'The Rape of the Lock' (1714). 1714 Ex Collection: The Right Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. Collector's stamp on verso.
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