Statue of Lord Byron
Copy of the work by Bertel Thorvaldsen
Viale del Museo Borghese
Villa Borghese gardens
Rome, May 2019
“The statue of the poet Lord Byron (1788-1824) in the Villa Borghese is a copy of the work by the Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770-1844), which stands in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge. Thorvaldsen, who spent most of his professional life in Rome, began work on the statue in 1831 and three years later it was shipped to London. The base is inscribed with lines from Byron's long narrative poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1812-18).” (Walks in Rome)
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