Illustration for Alexander Pope's "Rape of the Lock". vol.1, p. 141
date: label: Date
content: 1825 - 1830
name: label: Artist
content: Alexander Pope
label: Engraver
content: Samuel Maverick, 1789 - 1845
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Vertical rectangle. A seated lady reads a letter, and fondles a dog, while she is being watched by a serving woman and a winged sprite. The couplet in reference is "I was then, Belinda, if report say true, Thy eyes first open'd on a billet-doux."
place: label: made in
content: USA
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Erhard Weyhe
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1950-44-2
objectType: label: Type
content: metalwork
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Object Name
content: engraving plate
label: Type
content: engraving plate
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Copper
label: Dimensions
content: Overall: 18.5 x 10.8 cm (7 5/16 x 4 1/4 in.)