This is the seventeenth instalment of a tour through the Illustrations to the Life and Works of Lord Byron published between 1832 and 1834.  Here we begin a mini tour through the Ionian islands, making our first landing on one of the bedrocks of Homeric poetry, the home of Odysseus. Ithaca, Greece, 1832 Engraved by Edward Finden after … Continue reading Byron’s Europe: Plate 14, Port of Vathy, Ithaka, Greece →

This is the sixteenth instalment of a tour through the Illustrations to the Life and Works of Lord Byron published between 1832 and 1834.  Here we take our first footsteps on Greek soil and begin an encounter with both the ancient world and the contemporary East. Patras, Greece, 1832Engraved by Edward Finden after a watercolour by George Cattermole, … Continue reading Byron’s Europe: Plate 13, Patras, Greece →