| Method | Lithograph |
| Artist | Samuel Lover |
| Published | Drawn on Stone by S. Lover. Printed by M.H. & J.W. Allen, 32 Dame St. [c. 1826] |
| Dimensions | Image 215 x 310 mm, Sheet 310 x 425 mm |
| Notes |
A view of three Italian banditti (bandits), reposing amidst the rocks of a mountain pass. The character of the bandit found great currency in the 18th and early 19th centuries, particularly due to his use by poets and playwrights as a dramatic anti-hero. Away from the pages of literature, bandits were a very real danger to travelling Britons, particularly in the mountainous regions of Italy, Greece, and the Balkans, and it is no surprise that they appear as regularly in the travel narratives of Grand Tourists as they do the poems of the Romantics. Samuel Lover (24th February 1797 - 6th July 1868) was an Anglo-Irish painter, lithographer, poet, composer, and author. |
| Framing | unmounted |
| Price | £100.00 |
| Stock ID | 3254 |