And has not Sawney too his Lord and Whore?
by Hubert François Bourguignon (Gravelot)
1742
British Museum K,58.156
This satirical engraving depicts an incident at a brothel near Haymarket, which probably occured in 1715 (Rogers, The Alexander Pope Encyclopedia 322), and involved Edward Rich, seventh Earl of Warwick, Colley Cibber, and Pope. The image shows Cibber seizing tiny Pope's leg and pulling him off a naked woman sprawled upon a sofa, while behind the door Warwick and Commissioner Vaughan look on.
The engraving appeared following a public feud between Pope and Colley Cibber, playwright and Poet Laureate. For a fuller description of these events, see the description for the print titled "An Essay on Woman by the Author of the Essay on Man."
—Allison Muri, March 2014
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