| Method | Stipple and line engraving |
| Artist | William Holl after George Sanders |
| Published | A. Fullarton & Co. London & Edinburgh. [after 1834] |
| Dimensions | Image 145 x 110 mm, Plate 205 x 175 mm, Sheet 270 x 205 mm |
| Notes |
Inscription reads: Byron sometimes Biron. 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. In the 1807-1809 painting of Byron, upon which this print was based, the poet is depicted alighting from a small boat on a dramatic rocky seashore. The figure behind him is usually identified as his servant Robert Rushton, and it is believed that the painting was commissioned by Byron to commemorate a journey to the Hebrides. The print captures the poet from the waist up, his cravat and outer coat blowing in the wind. Unlike the earlier impressions of Sanders portrait engraved by Edward Finden, also printed by Fullarton, Holl's engraving renders the poet in full frame rather than vignette. The background features a seascape in place of the mountainous coast in the original painting, and the poet is depicted leaning on a balustrade rather than free-standing. William Holl the Younger (February 1807 - 30th January 1871) was a British engraver and printmaker. The son of the engraver William Holl the Elder (1771-1838), he is best known for his book engravings, particularly portraiture. George Sanders, sometimes Saunders, (1774-1846) was a Scottish painter and miniaturist best known for his painting of Lord Byron, commissioned by the poet and now in the Royal Collection. Not in O'Donoghue. Condition: Time-toning to sheet, foxing to inscription space, tears and creases to left margin and right top and bottom corners of sheet not affecting image. |
| Framing | mounted |
| Price | £55.00 |
| Stock ID | 36328 |