Visual and Textual Materials for Alexander Pope
Description
Here you will find a collection of images and objects relevant to the material context of Pope's Rape of the Lock. These resources, the authority of which I have verified by selecting them from universities, libraries, and museums--as well as by assessing relative contemporaneity--should be useful in imagining the material context of Pope's poem. For essay 2, I ask you to compose an essay in which you identify a relevant material object or context and craft an argument that uses insights gleaned from researching that context to help you read the poem more fully.
Collector(s)
- Tonya Howe
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Shift (with Stays)
"Women’s underwear served two purposes in the 18th century. The first function, carried out by the shift or smock, was to protect the clothing from the body, in an age when daily bathing was not customary. Made of very fine linen, the shift was the…
Porcelain Teapot
"This teapot is typical of the kind of Japanese porcelain made in connection with the growing interest in tea-drinking in late 17th-century Europe. The use of bright enamel colours on a fine white body is characteristic of the so-called Kakiemon…
The Toilet
This Art Nouveau illustration by Aubrey Beardsley shows the famous scene at the end of Canto 1, when Belinda readies herself (or has others ready her!) for the day ahead.
Woman's Dress
A heavy silk dress with an elaborate pattern and lacework.
Fan
This fan, made with gouache on paper, shows a symbolic political scene supporting the Jacobites.