| Lord Byron's Dream | |
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| Artist | Charles Lock Eastlake |
| Year | 1827 |
| Type | Oil on canvas, historical painting |
| Dimensions | 118.1 cm× 170.8 cm(46.5 in× 67.2 in) |
| Location | Tate Britain, London |
Lord Byron's Dream is a landscape painting by the British artist and future president of the Royal Academy Charles Lock Eastlake, from 1827.
Painted in Rome in 1827 while Eastlake was on an artistic Grand Tour, it was shipped to England and placed in the care of his friend J. M. W. Turner, who had admired it while he himself was in Italy. Turner assisted in the painting's exhibition at the 1829 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, while Eastlake was still abroad. [1]
The painting is inspired by Lord Byron's 1816 poem The Dream [2] and depicts the Romantic poet on his travels taking a rest by a ruined temple and dreaming his future poem. [3] It refers specifically to lines 114–122 of the poem, and may have inspired Turner's own later work Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (exhibited in 1832), based on another of Byron's poems. [4]
The painting is now in the collection of Tate Britain in London, which acquired it in 1872. [5] An engraving of 1833 by James Tibbits Willmore based on Eastlake's work is now in the Yale Center for British Art.
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