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Envy and Death


Imitations of Horace
Joseph H. Seymour (American, active 1791–1822)
Author: Alexander Pope (English, 1688–1744)
1808

Medium/Technique Engraving
Credit Line Gift of Francis Hill Bigelow
Accession NumberM25834
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné I 11
DescriptionFrontispiece to volume 2 of Alexander Pope, The works of Alexander Pope, Esq.: In six volumes complete. With his last corrections, additions, and improvements; together with all his notes, as they were delivered to the editor a little before his death. / Printed verbatim from the octavo edition of Mr. Warburton. (New-York: Published by William Durell. M'Farlane and Long, printers., 1807[-1808])

The image is an illustration for Pope's Imitations of Horace, lines 15 - 16.
InscriptionsIn plate, at lower left: I. H. Seymour sc.
In plate, below image: All human virtue to its latest breath, / Finds ency never conquer'd but by death/ / Page 75.
In plate, below image: Published by W. Durrell 1808.
ProvenancePDP Register entry: Date acquired, 3/4/1915