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In this illustration for Canto 2 of Pope's Rape of the Lock, the Baron prays for the success of his plans.

"The painter shows a fashionable family sitting around a tea table, obviously proud of their up-to-date and valuable silver and porcelain, and also of their knowledge of the correct manner of taking tea. The tea equipage is a typical one of the first…

In this illustration for Canto 3 of Pope's poem, we see the assembled party at Hampton Court Palace and the Baron about to snip off a lock of Belinda's hair.

In this illustration from Canto 4, we see the hallucinatory space of the Cave of Spleen.

In this engraving illustrating Pope's poem, we see the grotesque allegories of feminine vice and the strange teapots in the Cave of Spleen.