First published in 2005. Since the early nineteenth century, Byron, the man and his image, have captured the hearts and minds of untold legions of people of all political and social stripes in Britain, Europe, America, and around the world. This book focuses on the history and cultural significance for Federal America of the only portrait of Byron known to have been painted by a major artist. In private hands from 1826 until this day, Thomas Sulley s "Byron "has never before been the subject of scholarly study. Beginning with the discovery of the portrait in 1999 and a 200-year narrative...
First published in 2005. Since the early nineteenth century, Byron, the man and his image, have captured the hearts and minds of untold legions of ...
