Archive for posts tagged with ‘Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage’


Mar 31 2011

Bridge of Sighs, Ducal Palace and Custom House, William Turner

British / Italian / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc

Bridge of Sighs, Ducal Palace and Custom House, William Turner

This is a reproduction of “Bridge of Sighs, Ducal Palace and Custom House, Venice” of 1833 by William Turner.  When the artist exhibited this masterpiece in 1840 he accompanied it with these lines based on Byron’s Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage,

“I stood upon a bridge, a palace
and a prison on each hand.”

Byron had named the bridge based on the fact that Venetian prisoners would last glimpse the open world upon this bridge before being led into prison cells.  The painting was given to the British nation in 1856.  This masterpiece is 81.6 cm wide and 51.1 cm high and is in the Tate, London.

Click here  for more information