File:The Poetical Tom-Titt perch'd upon the Mount of Love, Being the Representation of a Merry Description in Mr Cibber's Letter to Mr Pope (BM 1868,0808.3706).jpg

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The Poetical Tom-Titt perch'd upon the Mount of Love, Being the Representation of a Merry Description in Mr Cibber's Letter to Mr Pope   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Title
The Poetical Tom-Titt perch'd upon the Mount of Love, Being the Representation of a Merry Description in Mr Cibber's Letter to Mr Pope
Description
English: Satire on Alexander Pope and his physical limitations. A sparsely furnished bedroom into which, on the left, the Earl of Warwick peers through a torn print pasted to the wall; he is watching Colley Cibber who has grasped the figure of Pope by the ankle, pulling him off a naked prostitute reclining on a bed. Cibber holds up the finger and thumb of his left hand to indicate Pope's diminutive size. Bed curtains hang from the ceiling and a print of a clergyman is pasted to the far wall. 31 July 1742
Etching and engraving
Depicted people Representation of: Alexander Pope
Date 1742
date QS:P571,+1742-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 213 millimetres
Width: 245 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.3706
Notes

The scene was described in "A letter from Mr Cibber to Mr Pope" (see BL, 641.h.5/4), a reply to Pope's attack on Cibber in the "Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot"; Cibber claimed to be saving Pope from the almost certain risk of contracting venereal disease.

See also BM Satires 2572-2574
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-3706
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