Byron, George Gordon

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Portrait by Thomas Phillips, c. 1813 (Source: Wikimedia)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Byron_1813_by_Phillips.jpg

Basic data

  1. Byron, George Gordon Noel Lord
  2. Quevedo Redivivus Pen Names
  3. January 22, 1788 in London
  4. †
    April 19, 1824 in Missolunghi
  5. Dichter
  6. London, Venedig

Iconography

Portrait by Thomas Phillips, c. 1813 (Source: Wikimedia)
An engraving of Byron's father, Captain John "Mad Jack" Byron, date unknown (Source: Wikimedia)
Catherine Gordon, Byron's mother, by Thomas Stewardson (Source: Wikimedia)
John FitzGibbon, 2nd Earl of Clare (Source: Wikimedia)
Byron's house, Burgage Manor, in Southwell, Nottinghamshire (Source: Wikimedia)
Autograph letter signed to John Hanson, Byron's lawyer and business agent. Fondazione BEIC (Source: Wikimedia)
Byron's Stone in Tepelenë, Albania (Source: Wikimedia)
Teresa Makri in 1870 (Source: Wikimedia)
Portrait of Byron by Richard Westall (Source: Wikimedia)
Frontispiece to a c. 1825 edition of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (Source: Wikimedia)
Byron's visit to San Lazzaro degli Armeni as depicted in Ivan Aivazovsky's 1899 portrait (Source: Wikimedia)
"Byron's Grotto" in Porto Venere, Italy, named in Byron's honour because, according to local legend, he meditated here and drew inspiration from this place for his literary works (Source: Wikimedia)
Α 19th-century sculptural composition by Henri-Michel Chapu and Alexandre Falguière depicting Greece in the form of a female figure crowning Lord Byron in the National Park in Athens (Άγαλμα Λόρδου Βύρωνος) (Source: Wikimedia)
Lord Byron in Albanian dress by Thomas Phillips, 1813. Venizelos Mansion, Athens (the British Ambassador's residence). (Source: Wikimedia)
The reception of Lord Byron at Missolonghi (Source: Wikimedia)
Lord Byron on His Deathbed, by Joseph Denis Odevaere (c. 1826). The sheet covers Byron's misshapen right foot. (Source: Wikimedia)
A Narrative of Lord Byron's Last Journey to Greece by Pietro Gamba (1825) (Source: Wikimedia)
Byron in 1830 (Source: Wikimedia)
Lord Byron by Henry Pierce Bone (Source: Wikimedia)
Stained glass at Ottawa Public Library featuring Charles Dickens, Archibald Lampman, Sir Walter Scott, Byron, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, William Shakespeare, and Thomas Moore (Source: Wikimedia)
The Bride of Abydos or Selim and Zuleika, an 1857 painting by Eugène Delacroix depicting Byron's work (Source: Wikimedia)
Bildnis des Lord Byron, unbekannter Künstler - 1820/1850 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis des George Gordon Byron Byron, unbekannter Künstler - 1840/1855 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis des George Gordon Byron Byron, George Henry Harlow - 1820/1840 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis des George Gordon Byron Byron, William Finden - 1820/1840 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis des George Gordon Byron Byron, Georges François Louis Jaquemot - 1826/1850 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis des George Gordon Byron Byron, unbekannter Künstler - 1826/1850 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis des George Gordon Byron Byron, Bollinger, Friedrich Wilhelm - 1818/1832 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis des George Gordon Byron Byron, Alonzo Chappel - 1873 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis des George Gordon Byron Byron, Alfred d' Orsay (comte) - 1823 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)

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