<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Pope" class="extiw" title="w:Alexander Pope">Alexander Pope</a> dying; from the title page to William Mason's <i>Musæus: a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/monody" class="extiw" title="w:monody">monody</a> to the memory of Mr. Pope, in imitation of Milton’s Lycidas</i> (1747).
<p>The following, the source of the artist information verified by the description of the image, is from the opening paragraph (on the sample page) of: <br></p><p><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1094-348X.1984.tb00295.x/pdf">“Postscript to the Odyssey”: <br>Pope’s Reluctant Debt to Milton</a> <br>
by James Gray. <br>
Wiley Online Library. Milton Quarterly, Volume 18, Issue 4, p. 105. 1984. Version of record online: 3 APR 2007.<br></p><p>"If it is true that every picture tells a story, the vignette drawn by Francis Hayman and engraved by Charles Grignion in 1747 for the title page of William Mason’s Musaeus: A Monody to the Memory of Mr Pope, In Imitation of Milton’s Lycidas is a notable illustration of that truth. The scene, appropriately, is a grotto, in which a female figure, representing Fame or Virtue, and wearing the creative sunburst or halo of Apollo, is supporting the seated figure of the dying Alexander Pope, while three deeply concerned poets - Milton, Spenser, and Chaucer -all look on. Spenser, in pastoral dress, is the most moved, as he laments the passing of another Colin Clout; Chaucer’s eyes are closed as he meditates once more the shortness of this life; but Milton has a partly wistful, partly pained look, as he clings to his lyre with one hand and, with the other, held reverently across his breast, salutes his declining successor."
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Due to the date being before Charles Grignion the Younger's birth (see <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Charles_Grignion_the_Younger" title="Category:Charles Grignion the Younger">Category:Charles Grignion the Younger</a>), this must have been engraved by <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charles_Grignion_the_Elder&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Charles Grignion the Elder (page does not exist)">Charles Grignion the Elder</a>.
Drawn by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Hayman" class="extiw" title="w:Francis Hayman">Francis Hayman</a> and engraved by <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charles_Grignion_the_Elder&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Charles Grignion the Elder (page does not exist)">Charles Grignion the Elder</a>; see description.
1747
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