William Powell Frith depicts the moment after Pope makes love to Lady Mary Montagu, 1852.

Alexander Pope has declared his ardent love to Lady Mary and she has burst into a fit of laugher. He sits in pain, his pride hurt. Print from oil on canvas. This painting illustrates the amatory problems of the physically crippled Pope, reminiscent of those expressed by the similarly hunch-backed Richard of Gloucester at the start of Shakespeare's "Richard III." Original at Auckland City Art Gallery. Courtesy of the Yorck Project, under GNU Free Document License.