Essai sur l'Homme
Artwork Details
- Title: Essai sur l'Homme
- Engraver: Pierre Soubeyran (Swiss, Geneva 1709–1775 Geneva)
- Artist: After Ferdinand Pierre Joseph Ignace Delamonce (French, Munich 1678–1753 Lyon)
- Author: Alexander Pope (British, 1688–1744)
- Artist: Frontispiece after Sir Godfrey Kneller (German, Lübeck 1646–1723 London)
- Sitter: Frontispiece portrait of Alexander Pope (British, 1688–1744)
- Dedicatee: Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Baden (German, 1728–1811)
- Publisher: March-Michel Bousquet & Compagnie Lausanne & Geneve
- Published in: Geneva and Lausanne
- Date: 1745
- Medium: Illustrations: etching
- Dimensions: 11 5/16 × 8 3/4 × 13/16 in. (28.7 × 22.2 × 2 cm)
- Classification: Books
- Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1973
- Object Number: 1973.521.4
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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