Fame & Friendship: Pope, Roubiliac and the Portrait Bust

by Malcolm Baker

No literary figure of the 18th-century was more esteemed than the poet Alexander Pope, and his sculpted portraits exemplify the celebration of literary fame at a period when authorship was being newly conceived and the portrait bust was enjoying new popularity. Accompanying an exhibition at Waddesdon Manor (The Rothschild Collection), this publication explores the convergence between authorship, portraiture, and the sculpted image in particular, by...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0954731050
• ISBN13: 9780954731052
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Paul Holberton Publishing
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.6" x 8.3"