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![Byron sometimes Biron [facsimile signatures.]](jpegs/23996.jpg)
Byron sometimes Biron [facsimile signatures.]
C. Sanders. W. Holl.
[n.d. c.1850.]
Engraving with stipple. 268 x 204mm. 10½ x 8".
George Gordon Noel Byron (1788-1824) was a British poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement. He was celebrated in life for aristocratic excesses including huge debts, numerous love affairs, rumours of a scandalous incestuous liaison with his half-sister, and self-imposed exile. He travelled to fight against the Ottoman Empire in the Greek War of Independence, for which Greeks revere him as a national hero. He died at 36 years old from a fever contracted while in Missolonghi, Greece.
[Ref: 23996] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)
C. Sanders. W. Holl.
[n.d. c.1850.]
Engraving with stipple. 268 x 204mm. 10½ x 8".
George Gordon Noel Byron (1788-1824) was a British poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement. He was celebrated in life for aristocratic excesses including huge debts, numerous love affairs, rumours of a scandalous incestuous liaison with his half-sister, and self-imposed exile. He travelled to fight against the Ottoman Empire in the Greek War of Independence, for which Greeks revere him as a national hero. He died at 36 years old from a fever contracted while in Missolonghi, Greece.
[Ref: 23996] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)