Thorwaldsen's Statue of Byron
Photograph
Lovell Reeve
English, 1814–1865
Thorwaldsen's Statue of Byron
From "The Stereoscopic Cabinet, or Monthly Packet of Pictures for the Stereoscope", Lovell Reeve Publ., February, 1860, No.IV
1860
Albumen silver print
7.1 x 7.1 cm. each on 8.5 x 17.4 cm. mount
Purchase
1986.0947.0010
Inscriptions verso-(printed label) "Thorwaldsen's Statue of Byron. Our stereograph
represents the statue of Byron by the famous Danish sculptor,
Thorwaldsen, as it stands in the Library of the Trinity College,
Cambridge. It was intended for the Poet's Corner, in Westminster Abbey
but was refused admittance on the ground of much of the poet's
writing being of an immoral, if not atheistical, tendency"
represents the statue of Byron by the famous Danish sculptor,
Thorwaldsen, as it stands in the Library of the Trinity College,
Cambridge. It was intended for the Poet's Corner, in Westminster Abbey
but was refused admittance on the ground of much of the poet's
writing being of an immoral, if not atheistical, tendency"
