Mrs. Pope

by Charles Carter after Jonathan Richardson the Elder
1774

Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection B1993.16.1

Inscribed in graphite, lower left: "[...]," Lettered, center left: "J. Richardson delin 1731"; center: "M.RS POPE."; center right: "C. Carter fecit. Aqua forti 1774."; lower center: "Daughter of Samuel Cooper, Painter; & Mother of Alexander Pope, from | an Original Drawing of J. Richardson Sen.r now in the Collection of the Hon.ble Horace Walpole, at Strawberry Hill."