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Lord Byrons Dream
Bequeathed by Thomas Howard 1872
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Byron, George Gordon, Lord, ‘The Dream’
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<p>Charles Eastlake was one of Turner's younger friends. Like Turner he was an admirer of Byron's poetry. This picture, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1829 , illustrates stanzas from Byron's poem The Dream and shows the poet resting on his Eastern travels.</p><p>Eastlake finished the picture in Rome in 1827. Turner saw it during his visits to Eastlake in the city in 1828, and wrote to his friend to report its safe arrival at the Royal Academy in 1829.</p><p><em>Gallery label, September 2002</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
15 July 2002 – 21 May 2007
2007-05-21
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2002-07-15
Exhibiting Turner
Collection based display
28 September 2008 – 11 January 2009
2009-01-11
28 September 2008 – 11 January 2009
2009-01-11
2008-09-28
LWL-Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Westfälisches (Munster, Germany)
http://landesmuseum.lwl.org
2008-09-28
Destinations of Desire - Artists on the Road
Loan-out
29 July 2010 – 14 March 2011
2011-03-14
6 August 2010 – 14 March 2011
2011-03-14
2010-08-06
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2010-07-29
Romantics 2
Collection based display
2 September 2011 – 15 April 2012
2012-04-15
2 September 2011 – 15 April 2012
2012-04-15
2011-09-02
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2011-09-02
Romantics
Collection based display
Lord Byron’s ‘Dream’
support: 1181 × 1708 mm
frame: 1514 × 2050 × 115 mm
Bequeathed by Thomas Howard 1872
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Charles Eastlake was one of Turner's younger friends. Like Turner he was an admirer of Byron's poetry. This picture, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1829 , illustrates stanzas from Byron's poem The Dream and shows the poet resting on his Eastern travels. </p>
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Eastlake finished the picture in Rome in 1827. Turner saw it during his visits to Eastlake in the city in 1828, and wrote to his friend to report its safe arrival at the Royal Academy in 1829.   </p>
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adults animals: mammals architecture building Byron, George Gordon, Lord, ‘The Dream’ camel classical countries and continents figure Greece landscape literature and fiction literature (not Shakespeare) mountain people periods and styles places ruins wooded