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Percy B Shelley. [facsimile signature.] (From an original picture in the possession of Mrs. Shelley.)
Engraved by W. Finden.
London Published 1836, by J. Murray: & Sold by C. Tilt, 86, Fleet Street.
Steel engraving. 222 x 152mm (8¾ x 6").
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822), poet and novelist. Shelley was sent down from Oxford in 1811 for professing his atheism. Believing in individual liberty and the perfection of humanity, he was an uncompromising idealist throughout his short life. Queen Mab (1813), promoting radical social change, was Shelley's first major poem. Later forced to flee his creditors, he and his wife Mary Shelley escaped to Italy in 1818. It was there that he produced some of his best work, including Ode to the West Wind (1819) and Adonais, a pastoral elegy inspired by Keats's death in 1821. Returning from visiting Byron and Leigh Hunt in Pisa, he was drowned in a storm at sea. After the portrait in oil in the National Portrait Gallery by Amelia Curran (d.1847). It was painted in Rome by the art student. Though begged from her by Mary Shelley after her husband's death, it was not much liked by his friends.
NPG: 1234.
[Ref: 19463] £45.00
London Published 1836, by J. Murray: & Sold by C. Tilt, 86, Fleet Street.
Steel engraving. 222 x 152mm (8¾ x 6").
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822), poet and novelist. Shelley was sent down from Oxford in 1811 for professing his atheism. Believing in individual liberty and the perfection of humanity, he was an uncompromising idealist throughout his short life. Queen Mab (1813), promoting radical social change, was Shelley's first major poem. Later forced to flee his creditors, he and his wife Mary Shelley escaped to Italy in 1818. It was there that he produced some of his best work, including Ode to the West Wind (1819) and Adonais, a pastoral elegy inspired by Keats's death in 1821. Returning from visiting Byron and Leigh Hunt in Pisa, he was drowned in a storm at sea. After the portrait in oil in the National Portrait Gallery by Amelia Curran (d.1847). It was painted in Rome by the art student. Though begged from her by Mary Shelley after her husband's death, it was not much liked by his friends.
NPG: 1234.
[Ref: 19463] £45.00