Dangerous to Show: Byron & His Portraits by Geoffrey Bond and Christine Kenyon Jones

Description

Lord Byron is one of the most captivating and recognisable figures of the Romantic Age. His face, figure and appearance added greatly to the appeal of his poetry and encouraged a wide range of artists to create portraits during his lifetime and to memorialise him after his death in Greece. This book explores Byron’s life through the intriguing stories behind these images and for the first time reproduces in colour all the key paintings, miniatures, sculptures, drawings and sketches, with a selection of prints, cartoons, engravings and other representations. 160pp, 100 Illus.