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WILLIAM HENRY LAKE PRICE (1809-1896)
Byron meditating in Palazzo Mocenigo, Venice
signed ‘Lake. Price. Venice. 1839’ (lower left)
pencil and watercolor heightened with bodycolor on paper
1312 x 1834 in. (34 x 47.7 cm.)
Provenance
Dudley Snelgrove; Sotheby’s, London, 19 November 1992, lot 350 (part).
Literature
H. Mallalieu, The Dictionary of British Watercolour Artists up to 1920, 1979, II, p. 433.
Exhibited
London, Tate Gallery, Turner and Byron, 1992, no. 9.
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Byron's pose in this drawing is derived from a portrait by William Westall (1781-1850) which was reproduced in colour lithograph by Price.

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