Childe Harold's Pilgrimage - Italy

Painting by J. M. W. Turner

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.^[1] It also reflects the influence of the seventeenth century artist Claude Lorrain.^[2]

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.^[3] Is now part of the collection of Tate Britain, having been part of the Turner Bequest in 1856.

References

^ Heffernan p.344
^ Pfister p.60
^ "Italy', Joseph Mallord William Turner, exhibited 1832". Tate. 11 January 2022. Retrieved 11 February 2024.

Bibliography

Finley, Gerald (10 March 1999). Angel in the Sun. Montreal: MQUP. ISBN 978-0-7735-1747-9.
Heffernan, James A. W. (2006). Cultivating Picturacy. Waco, Tex: Baylor University Press. ISBN 978-1-932792-41-6.
Hamilton, James (1 January 1998). Turner - A Life. Sceptre. ISBN 978-0-340-62811-9.
Pfister, Manfred (1996). The Fatal Gift of Beauty. Amsterdam: Rodopi. ISBN 978-90-5183-943-2.

J. M. W. Turner

Paintings

Interior of a Romanesque Church (c. 1795–1800)
Landscape with Windmill and Rainbow (c. 1795–1800)
Diana and Callisto (c. 1796)
Fishermen at Sea (1796)
Interior of a Gothic Church (c. 1797)
Limekiln at Coalbrookdale (c. 1797)
Moonlight, a Study at Millbank (1797)
Aeneas and the Sibyl, Lake Avernus (c. 1798)
Buttermere Lake, with Part of Cromackwater, Cumberland, a Shower (1798)
Caernarvon Castle (c. 1798)
Morning amongst the Coniston Fells, Cumberland (1798)
Shipping by a Breakwater (1798)
Tivoli and the Roman Campagna (c. 1798)
View of a Town (c. 1798)
Dolbadarn Castle (1798–1799)
Self-Portrait (c. 1799)
View in Wales: Mountain Scene with Village and Castle – Evening (c. 1799–1800)
Welsh Mountain Landscape (c. 1799–1800)
A Beech Wood with Gypsies round a Campfire (c. 1800)
A Beech Wood with Gypsies Seated in the Distance (c. 1800)
Landscape with Lake and Fallen Tree (c. 1800)
View on Clapham Common (c. 1800–1805)
The Shipwreck (1805)
London from Greenwich Park (1809)
The Fifth Plague of Egypt (1810)
High Street, Oxford (1810)
Snow Storm: Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps (1812)
Dido building Carthage, or, The Rise of the Carthaginian Empire (1815)
Dort or Dordrecht: The Dort packet-boat from Rotterdam becalmed (1818)
The Field of Waterloo (1818)
England: Richmond Hill, on the Prince Regent's Birthday (1819)
Rome, from the Vatican (1820)
The Battle of Trafalgar (1822)
Port Ruysdael (1826)
Chichester Canal (1828)
Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus (1829)
Funeral of Sir Thomas Lawrence (1830)
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage - Italy (1832)
The Fountain of Indolence (1834)
The Golden Bough (1834)
Venice: The Dogana and San Giorgio Maggiore (1834)
The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, 16th October, 1834 (1835)
Rome, From Mount Aventine (1835)
Venice, from the Porch of Madonna della Salute (c. 1835)
The Fighting Temeraire Tugged to Her Last Berth to Be Broken up (1838)
Modern Rome – Campo Vaccino (1839)
Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On) (1840)
Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth (1842)
The Blue Rigi (1842)
The Red Rigi (1842)
Peace – Burial at Sea (1842)
War. The Exile and the Rock Limpet (1842)
Light and Colour (Goethe's Theory) – The Morning after the Deluge – Moses Writing the Book of Genesis (1843)
Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway (1844)
Sunrise with Sea Monsters (1845)
Norham Castle, Sunrise (c. 1845)
Whalers (c. 1845)
The Beacon Light (unknown)