| Method | Stipple engraving on india laid paper |
| Artist | Henry Meyer after George Henry Harlow |
| Published | From a Drawing by G. H. Harlowe [c.1816] |
| Dimensions | Image 105 x 86 mm, Plate 158 x 113 mm, Sheet 265 x 190 mm |
| Notes |
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (22nd January 1788 - 19th April 1824) was a celebrated British poet and leading figure of the British Romantic movement. A legend in his own lifetime throughout Europe, Byron was famous for his good looks and his brilliant, reckless personality. A poet of travel and romance, and a scintillating satirist, he lived abroad from 1816 in self-imposed exile and died of fever at Missolonghi where he had joined the Greeks in their fight for independence from Turkish rule. Byron's tragic demise placed the poet alongside his departed friends and fellow poets, Keats and Shelley, and secured his immortality with the British public. The sketch of Byron by George Henry Harlow, upon which this drawing was based, was made around the time of the poet's wedding to Anne Isabella Milbanke, the cousin of his former paramour, Lady Caroline Lamb. Anne was a gifted and intelligent woman, and their daughter Augusta Ada Byron, better known as Ada Lovelace, inherited her mother's talents as a mathematician. Henry Hoppner Meyer (12th June 1780 - 28th May 1847) was a British portrait painter, and stipple and mezzotint engraver. He studied engraving techniques at the Royal Academy Schools under Francesco Bartolozzi. His most celebrated works include portraits of Lord Byron, Lady Emma Hamilton, and Admiral Nelson. George Henry Harlow (10th June 1787 - 4th February 1819) was a British portrait painter. His portraits, particularly those of his fellow artists James Northcote and Henry Fuseli, were highly esteemed, but his skills were feted more highly in Rome than in Britain, where the support of Antonio Canova earned him a place in the Academy of St Luke, an unusual honour for a British artist. O'Donoghue 9 Condition: Foxing to sheet around the plate mark. |
| Framing | mounted |
| Price | £100.00 |
| Stock ID | 36326 |