Childe Harold's Pilgrimage - Italy

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage – Italy
Artist	J. M. W. Turner
Year	1832
Type	Oil on canvas, Landscape painting
Location	Tate Britain, London

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage – Italy is an 1832 landscape painting by the British artist J. M. W. Turner. It depicts a scene from the poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage by Lord Byron. Turner possibly drew some inspiration from his friend Charles Lock Eastlake's 1827 painting Lord Byron's Dream. It also reflects the influence of the seventeenth century artist Claude Lorrain.

It was exhibited at the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition at Somerset House. It was extremely popular with visitors, but critics were unflattering about its use of colour. Is now part of the collection of Tate Britain, having been part of the Turner Bequest in 1856.

See also

• List of paintings by J. M. W. Turner

Bibliography

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